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...t lot of page allocation failures from some kernel modules since page reclaim isnt fast enough ( i am continuously running samba transfers). I would like to limit page cache being used by samba server ( smbd). I googled several threads but couldnt find satisfactory answer. I stumbled upon cgroups ( memory_limit_in_bytes). When i use this, i was successfully able to limit the page cache. As a side effect, i see that "Buffers" in /proc/meminfo grows up and sometimes smbd process is killed and respawned. I was wondering if anybody was able to successfully limit the page cache (with no side affects). Ofcour...