linux /proc/sys/vm/pagecache for oracle

From: NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:33:30 -0400
Message-ID: <t71332df3966pbjg7li0o9sut5e7549i9j@4ax.com>

Does anyone know what this parameter has been replaced with on RedHat 4.0?

I just noticed over 10G of my memory is used for file system caching.

[root_at_mars ~]# more /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:     16032636 kB
MemFree:       4643788 kB
Buffers:        156844 kB
Cached:       10390004 kB
SwapCached:         24 kB
Active:        2662108 kB
Inactive:      8228036 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:     16032636 kB
LowFree:       4643788 kB
SwapTotal:     8385920 kB
SwapFree:      8385892 kB
Dirty:              64 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
Mapped:        2274900 kB
Slab:           123408 kB
Committed_AS: 12578340 kB
PageTables:     213160 kB

VmallocTotal:536870911 kB
VmallocUsed: 109584 kB
VmallocChunk:536760867 kB

HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     2048 kB

# sysctl -w vm.pagecache="1 15 80"

error: 'vm.pagecache' is an unknown key

# cat /proc/vmstat | grep nr_mapped

nr_mapped 568747

Thanks,
Andrey
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We run Oracle 9.2.0.6 on RH4 AMD
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