On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:34:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:24 +0000, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? > > You can't. By design, it's totally dynamic. > > > i'm using an external usb hd for playing movies/mp3 but > > after a time of usage the memory becomes full and the system > > virtually unusable and i got to umount/mount the drive to > > keep working > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/meminfo > > total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: > > Mem: 775114752 772341760 2772992 0 7421952 609456128 > > Swap: 348323840 14917632 333406208 > > MemTotal: 756948 kB > > MemFree: 2708 kB > > MemShared: 0 kB > > Buffers: 7248 kB > > Cached: 593088 kB > > SwapCached: 2084 kB > > Active: 41492 kB > > Inactive: 664144 kB > > HighTotal: 0 kB > > HighFree: 0 kB > > LowTotal: 756948 kB > > LowFree: 2708 kB > > SwapTotal: 340160 kB > > SwapFree: 325592 kB > > > > which is mad > > Only 15MB of "stuff" is in swap. That's not enough to make the > system "virtually unusable". Something else must be going on that > you aren't telling us about.
At the moment of that cat /proc/meminfo i was only coping an mpeg file from the cdrom to usb hd and just surfing the web when the mouse start responding funy so i just stoped tomcat and eclipse but the happiness didnt last the point is that if i have the sub drive connected the disck cache grows up to whatever limit and everything stop working i even got java.lang.OutOfMemory from tomcat Im monitoring the memory with that aplication from KDE and there is not much swap usage and the phisical free memory under 5% while disk cache is about 500M ... I dont know what is this but it frozes the computer Thanks for any help. PS: here it goes another after a time of 'normal' working total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 775114752 770510848 4603904 0 41541632 477081600 Swap: 348323840 13242368 335081472 MemTotal: 756948 kB MemFree: 4496 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 40568 kB Cached: 461060 kB SwapCached: 4840 kB Active: 131572 kB Inactive: 562132 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 756948 kB LowFree: 4496 kB SwapTotal: 340160 kB SwapFree: 327228 kB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
