Re: Kernel 2.4.16 & Heavy I/O

[Pablo Borges <pablo.borges@uol.com.br>]

Don't we have a "dont't eat my whole memory, disk cache" option on linux ?


On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:07:42 +0100 (CET)
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> wrote:

> > > Absolutely all free memory may be used for disk caching.  So
> > > no, you can't get a bigger cache because it is already at
> > > the highest possible setting.  You don't have more memory
> > > for this - all is used already.
> >
> > May I limit this memory ? For a long time I'm working all day with no
> > physical memory available.
> 
> You can try rtlinux. In rtlinux (realtime linux), you tell linux how
> much memory the kernel will have access to, and let specially written
> apps to take the rest
> --
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
> 
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