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Re: disk cache



Yes, i know but linux keeps locking up as soon as the cache has used most of the memory

On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Mike Castle wrote:

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:48:06 -0700
From: Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com>
To: xuser <xuser@sdf.org>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: disk cache
Resent-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:48:41 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 6:52?PM xuser <xuser@sdf.org> wrote:
is there any way to limit the disk cache to %30 of the memory?

Why do you think you need to do that?

The kernel should be doing a good job of efficiently using the memory.
Restricting the amount of RAM used for caching is likely to slow
things down more than not.

mrc




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