[LIH] Mem Management was [Re: how to set the mem usage limit]

[sreangsu acharyya]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Upendra wrote:
> Its another thing linux lacks a robust memory management like FreeBSD or 
> even HPUX ;) Thats something planned for 2.5 time.
> Sorry for flamming :)

Hi all,

  looked into the docs in /usr/src/linux/documentation, where I found one
can to some extant tune the caching and swaping behaviour. Files to look
out for are /proc/sys/vm/bdflush and free-pages. 
  I guess its worth a try.

-- sreangsu


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