On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being
> used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost
> 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something
> intensive such as compiling an application. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to
> shrink
>
> I have 256MB of physcial RAM in my box. I would *think* that having a maximum
> of a 64MB disk cache would suffice. Any thoughts? Thanks...
>
I think it's part of the O/S that Linux uses "available"
memory to cache the disks. AFAIK, that can't be changed w/o
rewriting the kernel.
This came up awhile back and it was pointed out at that
time that linux DOES release memory as needed by the
various applications, but that it continues to buffer the
disks up to available RAM.
John
