From: Conn Clark <clark@esteem.com>
To: "Kappl, Hannes" <hkappl@harris.com>,
May Ling List <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: set a limit for the cache
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 13:30:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D29F668.21DC8B97@esteem.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8D4C69676E66D511A1CB00508BBBB1922C4173@ranmx1.ran.harris.com
You can do this by changing values in the /proc file system.
Refer to the docs in the kernel source.
"Kappl, Hannes" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using kernel 2.4.4. I have 32M RAM with a 10M Ramdisk. Now my problem is
> that
> the Ramdisk is cached in the RAM(4 - 8M!). Is it possible to set the size of
> the
> cache to a limit or to disable the cache complete?
>
> 7:13pm up 34 min, 0 users, load average: 0.12, 0.33, 0.30
> 22 processes: 21 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.9% user, 4.3% system, 0.0% nice, 94.7% idle
> Mem: 30612K av, 9216K used, 21396K free, 9904K shrd, 0K buff
> Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 5392K cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 107 root 14 0 836 836 644 R 0 4.5 2.7 0:00 top
>
> best regard
> Hannes
>
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2002-07-05 7:38 set a limit for the cache Kappl, Hannes
2002-07-05 8:57 ` Alex Zeffertt
2002-07-08 20:30 ` Conn Clark [this message]
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