On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:03:08AM +0200, Javier Marcet wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently set up a software RAID5 + bcache. > > I'm using kernel 3.5.2 merged with bcache master branch. I'm quite > happy with the performance but > there is an important issue. I can't drop caches. Writing any number > to /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > makes the system hungs. > > Furthermore, so far I've been unable to curb bcache's memory > consumption using the available > sysctl knobs. > > Is this problem known? No I didn't know about that - thanks, I'll look into it. Just out of curiousity, what are you doing? drop_caches isn't something you want to use in normal operation... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html