On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, David Murn wrote:
DM> because of being out of memory. The solution to this, is to write a
DM> simple little program to malloc space, and free it. This will flush all
DM> the disk cache out of memory.
I have about five lines of C source which can do this if that guy that
ask
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> Does anyone know how to limit the amount memory used for disk cache by
> Linux?
Firstly, this is the wrong list to ask it on. Try linux-kernel. I've
wanted to do this for a long time too, and the basic answer is "you
can't". Linux has a nice little bug
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Ted Pavlic wrote:
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Regards,
Simon Weijgers
I won't say "No! You don't want to do that! That's bad!"
What I will say is: "No! This isn't the place to ask!"
This is the Linux-8086 mailing list... i.e. Linux for XTs and 286s. We
don't mess with BigLinux stuff here.
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> Does anyone know how to limit t
Does anyone know how to limit the amount memory used for disk cache by
Linux?
Before everyone says, "No! You don't want to do that! That's bad!" Let me
explain my situation.
I have a RAID that has its own disk cache, and I receive much better
performance if I let my RAID handle the caching and h
