On Mon, 5 May 2008, FD Cami wrote:

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> On Mon, 5 May 2008 11:34:24 -0700
> "Kevin Burton" <burtonator@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> In the mean time is it possible to disable the page cache or limit it
>>>> to say 10% of system memory?
>>>
>>> You might want to look at /proc/sys/vm/ for tunables.
>>> /proc/sys/vm/vfs_cache_pressure and /proc/sys/vm/swappiness are probably
>>> what you are looking for.
>>
>> I haven't played with vfs_cache_pressure so I'll take a look at this.
>>
>> Unfortunately, swappiness doesn't work as intended.
>
> Could you explain the original problem ? That way we might help you better.

Probably it is something like this:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/05/01/mysql-and-the-linux-swap-problem/

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