On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 11:54 +0530, SK malik wrote: > Hi, > Can we configure the size of buffer cache in Linux? > HP-UX provides configurable parameters(bufpages,dbc_max_pct) for this. > > If this is not configurable in Linux, can the system allocate whole of > available memory as buffer cache (if available and required)? Hi, In linux, the buffer cache isn't really used anymore.... so no there are no tunables for it. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
