Fred Biehl wrote: > Hi Randy, and thanks for your reply :) You're welcome!
> By memory cache I wanted to mean the system´s file cache in the physical > memory (pm) space. Like, when you execute a program it is loaded into the > pm. When you close the application the files won´t go totally out of the pm, > they go to a place called 'Cache' located in the pm. The disk access time is > much bigger then the memory access time, so, this technique is implemented > on linux (Mandrake, redhat,.. etc.) so that less disk access time is spent. > This very nice if you have a large pm space. So, more cache means less free > memory. You know? > > My machine is a pentium II 333MHZ with 128 mb RAM, and for the 'RAM' reason, > I want to limit the cache space in the pm. By default, Linux is forced to > take all the space he needs to cache. wen it is over, swap runs on. I would > like to control the cache space. > > thanks for your answer and sorry about my bad english. :) No problem with your english -- I think you are referring to the Linux swap space. Again, like I mentioned earlier, I don't think you want to disable the Linux swap space. good luck, Randy Kramer
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