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>===== Original Message From darxus@chaosreigns.com =====
>
>"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.
>
No, as a matter of fact it's not what I am seeing. According to /proc/meminfo
there is 15-20MB of RAM it's calling Cached Memory. It never goes down from
that figure. I start to hit swap agressively almost immediately when the
"Free" memory starts to get used. According to the <Alt><SysRq>m page it's the
page and file cache. I've tried changing the figures in
/proc/sys/vm/buffermem, /proc/sys/vm/pagecache and
/proc/sys/vm/pagetable_cache. The kernel appears to respond to the buffermem
parameters but not the pagecache ones.
The only compiletime option I've found so far is CONFIG_NO_PGT_CACHE. Which
will stop the page table cache which according to the proc.txt file is only
used for multi-processors (which I don't have.) So that's part of it but I
haven't found an answer for setting the page/file cache sizes yet.
One odd note that I've found is that the kernel appears to respond somewhat to
the cache= command at boot. Where I had 20-25MB of space allocated to the
cache I now have 15-20MB allocated.
Buying more memory for this computer is not really an option. It's a laptop
and while I think the BIOS can handle larger amounts or RAM the ram slot is
custom to the model and memory cards over 32MB don't exhist. (32MB + 8MB on
board.)
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reality.sys corrupted. Reset universe? (Y/N)
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