[TriLUG] Fastest file system?

jeremyp at pobox.com jeremyp at pobox.com
Thu Oct 25 12:21:51 EDT 2001


On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Jon Carnes wrote:

> On Thursday 25 October 2001 11:47, jeremyp at pobox.com wrote:
> >
> > How do you set aside system memory for caching?
> >
> The wonderful thing about Linux, is that the kernel sets aside a little of 
> your unused memory for quick allocation and uses the rest as disk cache.  
> If Linux has memory available, it puts it to use!

I guess I should have been clearer... are there ways to control this... ie
set the minimum/maximum amount being used?  Is this why "free" shows much
more memory being used than the applications are actually using according
to "ps" and "top" ?

--Jeremy




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