Re: How can I bypass the buffer cache or disable it for a process?

Bob Bishop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> On 4 Aug 2026, at 23:45, Friedrich Doku <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is there a way to reliably run a single userspace process such that all of its I/O (reads and writes) bypasses the UFS buffer cache?

The short answer is probably “no”.

What are you trying to achieve exactly?

> Best,
> Friedrich

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Bob Bishop
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