At 07:53 PM 10/9/99 -0500, David Rodgers wrote:
> I need to turn disk buffering and caching off ........ my machine hung
>and died today for the second time because the buff/cache ate all the
>memory .. i was running top at the time and the buff/cache was accounting
>for all but 15mb of 2 gigs of ram ....... there is no need for disk
>buffering for a mail server anyway ....... the data being read changes
>from minute to minute
how do you know that's why it "hung and died"? it's normal for linux to
use most of the free memory for disk buffers. it should not cause a
problem, because when memory is needed, the buffer cache will provide it.
