RE: Memory Settings

["Tobias Speckbacher" <tobias quova com>]

This here might help you to tune your buffer cache appropriately.
http://people.redhat.com/nhorman/papers/rhel3_vm.pdf

-Tobias


-----Original Message-----
From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Don MacAskill
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:44 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Memory Settings


FYI, I was having similar problems on my 8GB AMD64 machine.

I finally turned swap off entirely and things have been much more 
steady, performance-wise.

Seems rather silly that this is happening.  :(

Don


List Account wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I'm running RHEL 3.0 on a Dell 1750 with 1GB of RAM.  The server is 
> having problems where all of the memory is going to buffer and cache 
> according to top, which causes the server to swap and makes
performance 
> go down the toilet.  If I reboot the server, it will behave normally
for 
> up to a month, but this problem always comes back.  I've looking for 
> information on setting limits for buffer and cache, but I can't seem
to 
> find any.  Does anyone know how to limit these two settings so they'll

> stop taking all of the memory?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Howard
> 
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