Hi , My system is redhat linux on ia64 with ocfs. The db server is the main application . Oracle uses direct-io by default. Considering oracle bypasses the page cache since it uses direct io why does the system has 4687296 kB allocated as cache? [oracle@tanidw1 proc]$ cat meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 8490827776 8407597056 83230720 0 309854208 5101617152 Swap: 25165725696 568295424 24597430272 MemTotal: 8291824 kB MemFree: 81280 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 302592 kB Cached: 4687296 kB SwapCached: 294752 kB Active: 2665648 kB Inact_dirty: 3367248 kB Inact_clean: 121328 kB Inact_target: 1230832 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 8291824 kB LowFree: 81280 kB SwapTotal: 24575904 kB SwapFree: 24020928 kB Committed_AS: 569088960 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 262144 kB Sar -B [oracle@tanidw1 proc]$ sar -B 1 10 Linux 2.4.18-e.37smp (tanidw1) 09/12/2005 03:58:18 PM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s activepg inadtypg inaclnpg inatarpg 03:58:19 PM 16524.00 22039.00 170661 206385 7164 76842 03:58:20 PM 23579.00 3936.00 170667 206444 7164 76855 03:58:21 PM 15180.00 91.00 170657 206511 7164 76866 03:58:22 PM 14522.00 14.00 170657 206579 7164 76880 03:58:23 PM 12252.00 127.00 170657 206640 7164 76892 03:58:24 PM 9882.00 5319.00 170661 206695 7164 76904 03:58:25 PM 10268.00 15.00 170661 206751 7163 76915 03:58:26 PM 18988.00 79.00 170661 206812 7163 76927 How can i see that whether these pagings occur in order to cache more file data or another? Kind Regards, Tolga Evren -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subjecthttps://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list