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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.