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Turning off caching

Posted Sep 14, 2013 6:45 UTC (Sat) by Spudd86 (guest, #51683)
In reply to: Turning off caching by sbohrer
Parent article: A survey of memory management patches

Do you care about the performance of open()? Then don't drop the caches because it drops the dentry cache too so the kernel will have to hit the disk for every directory in your path.

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