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I am using a centos 5 (2.6.18-194.el5).

I need to be able to list files very quickly, in order for my rsync backup to be efficient.

I don't really need to cache file contents, because file access response time isn't that important.

I've got hundred million files and they keep being added and removed, and I got the feeling that my inode cache gets replaced by file content cache, which I don't want.

After some lookup I think that maybe /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure could be helpful, but I am not sure how to use it and how to check it actually works.

Dear vfs guru, thank you for your help in advance

john.doe
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In one similar case I have a simple cronjob running every minute performing something like

find /some/mount/point 2&>1 >/dev/null

That way directory listing of 50 million files is forced to stay in cache.

Janne Pikkarainen
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