From: Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>
To: Heerappa Hunje <hunjeh@celetron.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: questions on swapping
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:03:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030429080358.GB668@vagabond> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF82D3C19C.A5743FFE-ON65256D16.00349A8A@celetron.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-29 8:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-28 9:37 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-28 9:47 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-29 8:03 ` Jan Hudec [this message]
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2003-04-29 13:28 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-29 11:22 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-29 11:28 ` Jan Hudec
2003-04-29 15:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-04-28 9:32 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-28 7:54 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-29 7:57 ` Jan Hudec
2003-04-28 7:32 Patwardhan, Aniruddha
2003-04-28 7:16 Heerappa Hunje
2003-04-28 7:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
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