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Is it possible to set larger buffers for file access on linux
The Linux kernel uses your entire available RAM for filesystem caching. You cannot make it use more.
You could try using a higher values of swappiness but I'm 99% sure it won't help.
Probably you need ...
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How do Kernel use pagecache?
In general, this is the list of the kernel / sysctl parameters that control those operations:
vm.dirty_background_bytes
vm.dirty_background_ratio
vm.dirty_bytes
vm.dirty_expire_centisecs
vm....
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