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KernelPanic:
quote:Originally posted by WMD:
On this note...is there something that lets me control the size of the caches? Because my system, after a half hour or so, seems to go up to 100MB buffers and 260MB cache, which puts it really close to the top.
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Why is that a problem?
WMD:
Because if I then launch a new program, it spends time either swapping or dump huge cache sections. I could probably speed up program startup a bit by figuring out a good cache capping point.
KernelPanic:
You actually notcie it swapping?
Can you observe it with free?
You might be able to tweak it a little by changing the bdflush interval.
[ August 11, 2004: Message edited by: Tux ]
WMD:
I leave top running in a separate desktop all the time...I notice it reports 260MB cache, so I switch to another desktop and launch Mozilla...it takes unusually long, and when I go back to top, the cache is down to 150MB or so.
It never swap in huge amounts, mostly just a MB or so at at time, but it seems pointless to do that if it's willing to shrink the cache 100MB or so.
Where can I adjust the bdflush thingy?
Aloone_Jonez:
VL 4.3 was released a few days ago.
I'm downloading it now.
323.8MB is big on a 5k connection that needs to be reconnected every 2 hours (fortunately my download manager will auto reconnect), its going to take more than a day.
How easy is it to do an upgrade installation?
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