How can I stop the flushing of mmaped pages to disk in Linux?
The /proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages Linux kernel parameter specifies whether or not memory-mapped file pages should be flushed to disk by kupdate while the memory map is active. Valid values for this parameter are 1 (enable memory mapping by kupdate) and 0 (disable memory mapping by kupdate). The default value for this parameter is 1. To configure this parameter, use echo [1 or 0] /proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages. Setting this parameter to 0 does the following (quoting from the official documentation):
- kupdate will not flush dirty memory-mapped file pages as long as the memory map is active.
- All dirty file pages will be asynchronously flushed to disk only as soon as the memory map is deactivated.
If you set /proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages to 0, it is advisable that you use another application to manually sync memory-mapped pages to disk. So to stop the flushing of mmaped pages to disk in Linux, enter:
sysctl -w /proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages=0 |
All dirty file pages will be asynchronously flushed to disk only as soon as the memory map is deactivated. To enable memory mapping again, enter:
sysctl -w /proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages=1 |
Add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
echo 0 >/proc/sys/vm/flush_mmap_pages
under Ubuntu 12.10,this parameter was gone, is there any other parameter I can use?