Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263415AbTKFIZx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 03:25:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263424AbTKFIZx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 03:25:53 -0500 Received: from mail-08.iinet.net.au ([203.59.3.40]:53941 "HELO mail.iinet.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263415AbTKFIZw (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2003 03:25:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3FAA058C.3090202@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:25:48 +1100 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wee Teck Neo CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Over used cache memory? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 934 Lines: 33 Wee Teck Neo wrote: > My system having 1GB ram and this is the output of vmstat > > procs memory swap io > system cpu > r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs > us sy id > 0 0 0 5640 21224 121512 797832 0 0 6 9 3 17 > 0 0 6 > > > It seems that 797MB is used for caching... thats a high number. Anyway > to set a lower cache size? > > I've read about the /proc/sys/vm/buffermem but my /proc doesn't have it. > > Kernel: 2.4.22 Short answer, no. If it is actually causing you a problem, test the latest 2.4 prerelease. If that doesn't help, report the details of the problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/