buffer cache question

From: JaniD++
Date: Mon Dec 19 2005 - 04:17:56 EST


Hello, list,

I use 4 disk nodes with NBD.
All of my nodes have 2GB ram.

But the buffer cache newer rise over 830MB.

Is there some limit?
Where can i change this limit? (if it is)

Thanks,
Janos

[root@st-0001 root]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2073152 933188 1139964 0 836776 43416
-/+ buffers/cache: 52996 2020156
Swap: 0 0 0
[root@st-0001 root]# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 2073152 kB
MemFree: 1139012 kB
Buffers: 835928 kB
Cached: 43448 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 12872 kB
Inactive: 871424 kB
HighTotal: 1179584 kB
HighFree: 1129764 kB
LowTotal: 893568 kB
LowFree: 9248 kB
SwapTotal: 0 kB
SwapFree: 0 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
Mapped: 9104 kB
Slab: 30248 kB
CommitLimit: 1036576 kB
Committed_AS: 15428 kB
PageTables: 408 kB
VmallocTotal: 114680 kB
VmallocUsed: 196 kB
VmallocChunk: 114476 kB
[root@st-0001 root]#

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