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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:36:41 -0500 (EST)
From:      Reflectorizer <tangier@widomaker.com>
To:        dyson@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, groudier@iplus.fr, hackers@freebsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject:   Re: Unices are created equal, but ...
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.960415233538.571A-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <199604142322.SAA00427@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Sun, 14 Apr 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:

> > Whole Linux seems to be a memory file system ;-) They are caching
> > like hell. Only benchmarks like bonnie on files of about 3xRAMSIZE

On this note... is there any way to easily limit the amount of cache
Linux is using?

I don't see it with bdflush parameters but maybe it would not be too
hard to put a limit in the kernel.



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