vmtouch
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hoytech
Portable file system cache diagnostics and control
It looks like mincore() may be crippled in new linux kernels to protect against side-channel attacks: see [this linux kernel commit](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=134fca9063ad4851de767d1768180e5dede9a881) Unfortunately, on kernel versions 5.2+, you'll need to run...
It would be nice if there would be an option to only touch pages of file that are not in cache yet. I am trying to use vmtouch for files...
Sometimes touching too much can bring system trouble. So I propose a function. This function limit the maximum touch size for 1 second with (-s).
When locking files into memory, we could use inotify (or other interfaces for different OSes) to discover when a file's size or inode changes, and re-map and re-lock the new...
I would like to install vmtouch without having sudo rights on my ubuntu pc. How is this possible?
I would like to see a parameter that prints the same as `-v`, just without all the files that are not cached at all i.e. that say `0/x`. When I...
I wanna setup a expiriment. I modified the linux kernel source code. I wanna control the size of page cache. Is this tool useful??^_^
What about creating library with convenient API? This gives: 1. Ability to use library in more applications, not requiring parsing text (more efficient and reliable) 2. Make Python and other...
For server applications with a large HDD backed DB, with data >> RAM, it is often the case that the server takes a very long time to "warm up", as...
