Re: Kernel VS application file caching

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Thursday 21 January 2010 21:39:00 Quentin Garnier wrote:
> I'd gently suggest at some point to visit, for instance,
> http://www.netbsd.org/gallery/consultants.html.  Given how little you
> tell about the grand scheme behind all your questions, it might be
> better for you to work that way.
> 
Am I annoying people on this list by asking too many simple questions?
 
> I'm not quite sure from where you get the idea that calling mmap on a
> file makes the kernel load data into memory.
> 
If you know something better than another person, why not explain it, instead 
of ridiculing. By the way I do know that calling mmap on an object and 
accessing it will dynamically bring in data in pages, as they are accessed. In 
my previous comments I was referring to the fact that in my view there was no 
simple way of dynamically putting hard restrictions on the amount of data 
cached by kernel for a particular file.