From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:14:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail02.adl2.internode.on.net [203.16.214.141]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l8L3E0gf011288 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:14:02 -0700 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:13:30 +1000 From: Jason White Subject: Re: xfs and Linux Linux 2.6.22 and Memory Message-ID: <20070921031330.GA15134@jdc.jasonjgw.net> References: <46F2E001.4040107@sandeen.net> <773373.46803.qm@web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <773373.46803.qm@web35703.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:14:23PM -0700, Mariella Petrini wrote: > I was mostly curious, especially because In some cases > after having created all the files I may not need to > have all of them cached and I may need to availability > of the RAM for other purposes. I may be wrong, but as I understand it, if the RAM is needed for other purposes, cache pages are made available automatically and the size of the cache is reduced as the RAM is allocated by processes.