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- From: daum@ee.ualberta.ca (Tanya Louise Daum)
- Subject: Cache
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 05:00:31 GMT
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- I am running Linux 0.98.5 on a 486DX/50 with 8 megs of ram and 16 megs of
- swap. I have a hardware cache installed (256k) but Linux keeps reserving
- huge huge ammounts of space for cache.
-
- When I look at the output from "free" I usually get values ranging from 2
- megs to 6 megs reserved for cache! Even when I've run out of RAM and Linux
- starts to use swap the system still commonly uses 2 megs or 3 megs for
- cache. Is there any way to get it to use less or (maybe) none? I mean,
- this really ticks me off to have the system swapping to death while I sit
- there with 3 megs basically unused.
-
- --
- "And men are men who till the land, and women are women who weave, fifty men
- own the lemon grove, and no man is a slave." -- Herbert Read
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- Comrade @ LambdaMOO (telnet lambda.parc.xerox.com 8888) daum@bode.ualberta.ca
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