RE: linux DBA's: O_Direct

>>>Mark,
>>>
>>> You may want to look into the BUFFERMEM parameter (which
>>>you can set with sysctl). With this, you can restrict the
>>>amount of RAM used to buffer filesystem I/O. This may (or

buffermem? That is a blast from the Red Hat "Frankenkernel" past. Mark Teehan is on 2.4.21 which would be RHEL 3.0. The last Frankenkernel to have buffermem in /proc was RHAS 2.1

If you haven't nailed huge systems of both SuSE and RH against the wall to see which one splits at the seam easier, you might not know what Frankenkernel is :)

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