Artur Skawina wrote: ...
- Is there a way to configure the kernel, so the inode entries are locked in the cache or at least get a much higher cache priority than ordinary data?
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o play with /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure; try decreasing it. significantly. what you describe as "2)" above would be "vfs_cache_pressure=0".
Thanks, sounds like it is exactly what I need!
I have set /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure to 1 for now. I'll observe the effects for a while.
Carsten.