Re: Over used cache memory?

[Helge Hafting]

Wee Teck Neo wrote:
> My system having 1GB ram and this is the output of vmstat
>
>   procs                      memory      swap          io     
> system      cpu
> r  b  w   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us 
> sy id
> 0  0  0   5640  21224 121512 797832    0    0     6     9    3    17  0  
> 0  6
>
>
> It seems that 797MB is used for caching... thats a high number. Anyway 
> to set a lower cache size?

Yes - _use_ the memory for something else. 
1. All unused memory will be put to good use as cache.
2. Memory is taken from the cache whenever you need it for
  something else, so (1) is not a problem at all.

Helge Hafting

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