Re: Ability to limit or disable page caching?

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Mon, 5 May 2008, FD Cami wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:34:24 -0700
> "Kevin Burton" <burtonator@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > > In the mean time is it possible to disable the page cache or limit it
> > > > to say 10% of system memory?
> > >
> > > You might want to look at /proc/sys/vm/ for tunables.
> > > /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness are probably
> > > what you are looking for.
> >
> > I haven't played with vfs_cache_pressure so I'll take a look at this.
> >
> > Unfortunately, swappiness doesn't work as intended.
>
> Could you explain the original problem ? That way we might help you better.

Probably it is something like this:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/05/01/mysql-and-the-linux-swap-problem/

kloczek
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