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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:blue'>If this is the
wrong mailing list (though I doubt it is). Could someone please direct me to
the right one? Should this question be directed to LKML instead?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:blue'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:blue'>Justin.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Justin Randall <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, September 08, 2006
10:31 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> centos@centos.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [CentOS] kbcached tuning
on CentOS 4</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>I’ve been searching to no end at how
to tune at what interval (or size) kbcached will be flushed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>I had been chasing a potential memory leak
until “sar –r”, had revealed that all the “mysteriously
used” memory was actually being taken up by the kernel data cache.
It is chewing up all unused memory on the system slowly over time, which is a
concern. Various sources have pointed me towards making modification in
the /proc/sys/vm file-system although kernel documentation on the files within
doesn’t seem to really fit what I’m trying to do.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Any way to set the kbcached buffer to be
flushed either at a specified time interval or once it hits a certain size
would be a great help.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Thoughts anyone?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>Justin Randall<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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