I said the kernel is smarter than your app, not psychic. Of course you need to tell Linux what to do with specialized applications.<p>However, any option worth disabling can be disabled. Nothing needs to be forced off like the writer of the article did. mmap&#x27;d writes should be flushed as soon as possible, not dragged out, especially in the SSD age we have today. What the writer did was actually counterintuitive and makes no sense. None.