On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:51:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > 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 > > Ah, so you aren't *just* cp'ing files from point A to point B. > What else are you running besides Tomcat and Eclipse? > > Operating on huge files will always cause the kind of problems > you describe.
I understand that > Unfortunately, that one file takes up all of cache. So, the next > time that you want to use Mozilla or Eclipse or whatever, it has > to be taken back out of swap, and put back in RAM. i understand that as well what i dont undrestand is how can i have to wait 10 seconds to close one file or tomcat runs out of memory in a computer with 700MB and the only aplications that are runing are a couple of xtrems,tomcat, eclipse,mysql,galeon and XMMS playing files that are as huge as about 3-4MB and this all this disapear automagically umounting the hd and throwing all that disk cache out off RAM There is no way to say linux not to use more cache than some amount? Cant i just set something, let's say on the /proc fs, that prevents the kernel to use all that memory for disk caching? because i really need to use this aplications and really need to listen to music i my machine looks broken and mounting/umounting i loose all the feeling that with linux i can control what is going on in my box thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
