set a limit for the cache

[Conn Clark]

You can do this by changing values in the /proc file system.
Refer to the docs in the kernel source.

"Kappl, Hannes" wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I am using kernel 2.4.4. I have 32M RAM with a 10M Ramdisk. Now my problem is
> that
>  the Ramdisk is cached in the RAM(4 - 8M!). Is it possible to set the size of
> the
>  cache to a limit or to disable the cache complete?
>
>    7:13pm  up 34 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.33, 0.30
>  22 processes: 21 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
>  CPU states:  0.9% user,  4.3% system,  0.0% nice, 94.7% idle
>  Mem:   30612K av,   9216K used,  21396K free,   9904K shrd,      0K buff
>  Swap:      0K av,      0K used,      0K free                  5392K cached
>
>   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
>   107 root      14   0   836  836   644 R       0  4.5  2.7   0:00 top
>
>  best regard
>  Hannes
>

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