Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
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. > >

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:26:14PM +, Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja 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 happines

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
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

Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Ivan Garcia Sainz-Aja
Hi all, how can i limit the amount of this cache linux uses? 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