On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:25:59 +0530, Anand Avati <address@hidden>
wrote:
Is there a parameter to limit this cache? And how does this compare to
the normal page cache on the underlying FS?
It is not possible to limit this cache as it is decided by the dcache
pruning algorithm in the linux kernel vm. You can however force a
forget of all the build cache by doing an 'echo 3 >
/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches'
Interesting, I thought the drop_caches didn't include the caches that
reflect in the process size itself. So the 300MB of the resident size of
glusterfs gets included? I'll have to try this. So, running
# updatedb
and/or
# ls -laR /
should make it go up to maximum size and not grow much further?