From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Disable cached memory
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:59:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42829C6C.9010003@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ze5-6rp-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Chen Bill-R63518 wrote:
> Hi,
> When I cat "/proc/meminfo", I found there were too many memory cached which may result in kernel oom and killing something. I want to disable the cacheable feature, or limit the maximum of memory sizes which could be used for cached data. But anyone know how I shall do in the kernel? I use 2.4.20 kernel. Thanks.
It doesn't work that way. If memory is needed for something else, the
amount of memory used for cache will be reduced.
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2005-05-11 23:59 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2005-05-10 9:26 Disable cached memory Chen Bill-R63518
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