Why does the vm.pagecache tuning appear to be missing in certain versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 and 3 there was a vm tunable called pagecache. This tunable does not appear to be available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 until Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.6, and also not available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 until Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2 and 3, the tunable had three values: min, borrow, and max. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4....

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