Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:22:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:22:43 -0500 Received: from garrincha.netbank.com.br ([200.203.199.88]:58116 "HELO netbank.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:22:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 22:22:17 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: To: Cc: Subject: Re: Problems with VM In-Reply-To: <3C6C53C0.E7562704@get2chip.com> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 ccroswhite@get2chip.com wrote: > I am having difficulties with memory allocation in teh 2.4.17 kernel. > Memory is being agressively given as cache but not retrieved to be used > as 'normal' ran. Consequently, I will have a machine that has 5M > 'normal' RAM, 800M 'cache' RAM and the reset coming out of swap space. > I need this 'cache' RAM placed back into the available RAM pool to be > used by applications. Is there a patch/kernel configuration that I can > change this behavior? If you feel adventurous, you could try my reverse mapping VM: http://surriel.com/patches/2.4/2.4.17-rmap-12f The changelog can be found at http://surriel.com/patches/Changelog.rmap kind regards, Rik -- "Linux holds advantages over the single-vendor commercial OS" -- Microsoft's "Competing with Linux" document http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ - 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/