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From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
To: Wee Teck Neo <slashboy84@msn.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Over used cache memory?
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 19:25:48 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FAA058C.3090202@cyberone.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY4-F41WYf5UPHvAo10001c90f@hotmail.com>



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.



  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-06  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-06  8:05 Over used cache memory? Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06  8:25 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2003-11-06  8:59 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06  9:11 ` Helge Hafting
2003-11-06 13:40   ` jlnance
2003-11-06 14:14     ` Gianni Tedesco
2003-11-06 21:47       ` jlnance
2003-11-06  9:15 Wee Teck Neo
2003-11-06 19:07 ` Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
2003-11-06 19:57   ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-06 20:50     ` Daniel Gryniewicz
     [not found] <BAY4-F18tJyMmxsywxZ00005d1a@hotmail.com>
2003-11-06  9:16 ` Jerry Lundström
2003-11-06  9:33 Wee Teck Neo

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