directio not working

[Richard Kearsley]

Hi, from nginx wiki:

directio
syntax: directio [size|off]
default: directio off
context: http, server, location
The directive enables use of flags O_DIRECT (FreeBSD, Linux), F_NOCACHE (Mac OS X) or directio() function (Solaris) for reading files with size greater than specified. This directive disables use of sendfile<http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#sendfile> for this request. This directive may be useful for big files:
    directio  4m;

I have in my config:
directio    0;

(I do not want to cache anything in ram)

But ater 5 mins of nginx running:

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7994       1980       6014          0        255       1033
-/+ buffers/cache:        691       7303

(cached is going up and up)

Is something else needed or is it just not working?

OS:
2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 18:42:20 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Many thanks as always

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