Re: Disable cached memory

Robert Hancock
2005-05-12T00:00:44Z

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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