Subject: Re: How do I supress/shrink VM Page Cache for large files?
To: None <Davef1624@aol.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-embed
Date: 06/13/2003 04:53:56
> I've got an application that generates logging events to a file--
> this file continually grows and can consume over 1 Gbyte of disk
> space.
> For my application, I will *never* read back the file,
If you will *never* read it, I have to ask, why bother writing it?
Surely the most effective and efficient thing to do is to just
altogether skip writing data that will never be read....
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