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diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+/dontneed
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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+dontneed: dontneed.c
+	gcc -Wall dontneed.c -o dontneed
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# dontneed: tell linux you don't need some files in RAM cache
+
+Maybe used to prevent swapping about files you write but don't read, like somedump.sql.gz on somelog.1.gz.
+
+    Usage: ./dontneed <path>...
+     Calls posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) on each <path>
+    
+     Tip: you may find all cached files from rootfs with the costly one-liner:
+     # find / -mount -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 fincore | grep -vE '^ *0B' | sort -hr | uniq | less
diff --git a/dontneed.c b/dontneed.c
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+#include <fcntl.h>  // posix_fadvise
+#include <errno.h>  // errno
+#include <string.h> // strerror
+#include <stdio.h>  // fprintf
+#include <unistd.h> // open,close
+
+int usage(char progname[]) {
+	fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <path>...\n", progname);
+	fprintf(stderr, " Calls posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) on each <path>\n\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, " Tip: you may find all cached files from rootfs with the costly one-liner:\n");
+	fprintf(stderr, " # find / -mount -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 fincore | grep -vE '^ *0B' | sort -hr | uniq | less\n");
+	return 1;
+}
+
+int main(int argc, char** argv) {
+	int i, fd, advise_errno, errors=0;
+	if ( argc < 2 ) return usage(argv[0]);
+	for (i=1; i<argc; i++) {
+		fd = open(argv[i], O_RDONLY);
+		if ( fd == -1 ) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Can't open '%s': %s\n", argv[i], strerror(errno));
+			errors++; continue;
+		}
+		advise_errno = posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED);
+		if ( advise_errno != 0 ) {
+			fprintf(stderr, "Can't posix_fadvise '%s' (%i): %s\n", argv[i], advise_errno, strerror(errno));
+			errors++; //don't forget to close(fd) anyway
+		}
+		close(fd);
+	}
+	return (errors != 0);
+}