On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:07:08PM +0530, Heerappa Hunje wrote: > Let me know how much of memory a system adminstrator can configure for > buffering mechanism out 128MB/256MB or it will be choosen by the Linux > itself. Buffers are rather transient stuff during IO operations. Kernel will allocate memory for them as they are needed. All memory, that is not used by kernel or applications is used for caching files (page cache). No need to configure that either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
