From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:51:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:51:11 -0500 Received: from mail.internetwork-ag.de ([217.6.75.131]:40375 "EHLO mail.internetwork-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:51:09 -0500 Message-ID: <3E8A60B5.E4308534@inw.de> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 20:01:57 -0800 From: Till Immanuel Patzschke Organization: interNetwork AG X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-4GB i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: [Q] cache/buffers growing constantly (2.4.20aa1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dear list, I am constantly running a process creating child processes, running them for a while, then terminating, restarting and so on... The process restarted over and over again is the same (same executable) the launching process doesn't stop. Running this for a while (or increasing the number of "launchers" but keeping the launched process the same all the time lets the buffers/cache constantly grow up to the point where all memory is taken and the machine starts swapping... Q:Is there any way to limit the cache/buffe usage? And, if yes, how? Thanks for the help, Immanuel