Re: "Cached" grows and grows and grows...

Alan Cox
2001-09-07T22:12:22Z

> To tell you the honest truth: you are not alone in cosmos (with this problem)
> ;-)
> To give you that explicit hint for saving money: do not buy mem, it will be
> eaten up by recent kernels without any performance gain or other positive
> impact whatsoever.

Pick up a 2.4.9-ac kernel, and you shouldnt be seeing the problem (I say
shouldnt, I'm not 100% convinced its all under control)

> Try using 2.4.4, if it doesn't succeed, forget 2.4 and use 2.2.19. That works.
> Unfortunately you may have to completely reinstall your system when going back
> to 2.2.

That should not be needed at all.