Re: Over used cache memory?

[Jerry Lundström]

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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