Brett E. wrote:
> exits, freeing up the malloc'ed memory. This brings free memory up by 
> 400 megs and brings the cache down to close to 0, of course the cache 

Yeah, I have something similar (attached).  Run it like

	fillmem <number-of-megabytes>


> grows right afterwards. It would be nice to cap the cache datastructures 
> in the kernel but I've been posting about this since September to no 
> avail so my expectations are pretty low.

This is a frequent request...  although I disagree with a hard cap on 
the cache, I think the request (and similar ones) should hopefully 
indicate to the VM gurus that the kernel likes cache better than anon 
VMAs that must be swapped out.

	Jeff