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, 25 Sep 2001 21:55:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:54:52 -0400 Received: from mail3.aracnet.com ([216.99.193.38]:1036 "EHLO mail3.aracnet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 25 Sep 2001 21:54:43 -0400 From: "M. Edward Borasky" To: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" Subject: RE: "Cached" grows and grows and grows... Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 18:55:11 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Has this issue been resolved? If so, which of the many kernels has a confirmed fix? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Chief Scientist, Borasky Research http://www.borasky-research.net http://www.aracnet.com/~znmeb mailto:znmeb@borasky-research.net mailto:znmeb@aracnet.com If there's nothing to astrology, how come so many famous men were born on holidays? > -----Original Message----- > > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org]On Behalf Of Alan Cox > > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 3:16 PM > > To: Stephan von Krawczynski > > Cc: Bob McElrath; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: "Cached" grows and grows and grows... > > > > > > > To tell you the honest truth: you are not alone in cosmos (with > > this problem) > > > ;-) > > > To give you that explicit hint for saving money: do not buy > > mem, it will be > > > eaten up by recent kernels without any performance gain or > > other positive > > > impact whatsoever. > > > > Pick up a 2.4.9-ac kernel, and you shouldnt be seeing the problem (I say > > shouldnt, I'm not 100% convinced its all under control) > > > > > Try using 2.4.4, if it doesn't succeed, forget 2.4 and use > > 2.2.19. That works. > > > Unfortunately you may have to completely reinstall your system > > when going back > > > to 2.2. > > > > That should not be needed at all.