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SubjectRe: Over used cache memory?
Wee Teck Neo wrote:
> My system having 1GB ram and this is the output of vmstat
>
> procs memory swap io
> system cpu
> r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us
> sy id
> 0 0 0 5640 21224 121512 797832 0 0 6 9 3 17 0
> 0 6
>
>
> It seems that 797MB is used for caching... thats a high number. Anyway
> to set a lower cache size?
>
> I've read about the /proc/sys/vm/buffermem but my /proc doesn't have it.
>
> Kernel: 2.4.22
>

I don't see the problem? Linux uses unused memory as cache and unless
you have processes using more memory then thats free you dont have a
problem, this is all dynamic and nothing to worry about.

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