From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262419AbULOR5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:57:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262422AbULOR5f (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:57:35 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:29876 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262419AbULOR51 (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:57:27 -0500 From: Jesse Barnes To: krmurthy@cisco.com Subject: Re: Limiting memory allocated by buffer cache in 2.4 kernel Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:56:23 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <013901c4e2b4$bd041ad0$f8074d0a@apac.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <013901c4e2b4$bd041ad0$f8074d0a@apac.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412150956.23799.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:45 am, N.C.Krishna Murthy (krmurthy) wrote: > 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. For that matter, is there a way to do this in 2.6? We've seen problems caused by huge page caches pushing data allocations off-node, so it would be really nice to have a limit control... Jesse