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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Implementation of pagecache.max and buffermem.max
On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Larry Woodman wrote:

> Currently the /proc/sys/vm/pagecache and /proc/sys/vm/buffermem
> interfaces allow administrators to configure maximum percentages
> of physical memory that the pagecache and buffermem are allowed to
> consume but the kernel ignores these parameters.

I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but things read out of swap
are now also in the page cache so the parameter doesn't
protect swap performance any more like the name suggests.

I really should update the documentation on that one :)

Rik
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