From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261343AbVELAAo (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261336AbVELAAk (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:00:40 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:40269 "EHLO pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261343AbVELAAD (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 20:00:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 17:59:40 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Disable cached memory In-reply-to: <42ze5-6rp-13@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <42829C6C.9010003@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <42ze5-6rp-13@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/