noca 0.2 review

noca prevents the filling of pagecache with data that you know that you'll don't need it anymore. It uses fadvise with POSIX_FADV_

License: Free for non-commercial use File size: 3K Developer: Catalin BOIE

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noca prevents the filling of pagecache with data that you know that you'll don't need it anymore.

It uses fadvise with POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED. It only works on x86 arhitecture.

The noca shared library is preloaded is it hooks read, lseek and close. In this functions, if some conditions are met, they trigger an fadvise call.

Installation

make
make install

What's New in This Release:
Added some environment variables to control how noca behaves
Do the same to write not only read