Cat on (RAM) steroids

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Eli Billauer <eli at billauer.co.il> wrote:
> Besides, I have a faint memory of a limitation on the total RAM allocatable inside the kernel. Was it 512MB? Has this limitation vanished?

You can reserve more memory for kernel side processing using
echo size_in_kb > > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

Keep in mind that raising this value will have adverse effect on
user-mode applications.

- Gilboa