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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> Can someone tell me how to set the kernel's cache size? I've read the
> memory.txt file in the kernel's Documentation directory and it says to turn
> off caching in the BIOS. Unfortunately I can not do this because there isn't
> an option for it. The kernel is allocating over half of my online RAM for it's
> cache and since I only have 40MB online this is a real problem.
"Linux has an always full memory model". If your memory isn't being used
for something else, it'll be used up for cache. If it's needed by other
things, it'll be taken from what's being used for cache first.
Don't know if this is what you're seeing.
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