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From: "N.C.Krishna Murthy \(krmurthy\)" <krmurthy@cisco.com>
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Subject: Limiting memory allocated by buffer cache in 2.4 kernel
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:15:35 +0530
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Hi,
	I am using linux 2.4.22 kernel. Is there any way to limit the amount
of memory allocated by buffer cache? Eariler versions used to have
/proc/sys/vm/buffermem.

Thanx
NCKM