On Wednesday 05 May 2004 03:04, Tulsi Ram Mayala wrote: Hi Tulsi, > I need some help to disable disk caching on Red Hat linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4). > I run a server application on this system with 2 Gigs of RAM. The server > application does a lot of disk IO and with time, the linux system consumes > all of available memory in cache and buffers thus leaving no space for the > processes to grow. The system starts swapping and slows down my server > application. > I need some way to limit/disable the disk caching. My application does > both disk read and write intensive operations. > Any pointers will be appreciated. > Thanx in advance. I don't know what Kernel RH 7.2 is using, but maybe it's all related to this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=89226 ciao, Marc -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
