Hi Yongsheng,
the meaning of cached/buffered depends on the architecture. If you are
on Linux, cached describes the amount of memory that is used for the
page cache, which usually means the pages used to speed up IO
operations. It will not go down, unless all there is pressure for
memory from
To: Zhao, Yongsheng; ganglia-general@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory
and Buffered memory
Hi Yongsheng,
the meaning of cached/buffered depends on the architecture. If you
Hi Yongsheng,
the only sure way to get it down is reboot. Another way mybe to
unmount/mount all filesystems (which does not work for / :-)
But there is no need to worry about cached. It will go away
automatically if an application wants the memory. Oh - you could write
an application that
I see. Thanks Martin.
Yongsheng
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Subject:RE: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached memory
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*Subject:* Re: [Ganglia-general] What's the meaning of Cached
memory and Buffered memory
Hi Yongsheng,
the meaning of cached/buffered depends on the architecture. If
you are
on Linux, cached describes the amount of memory
On Tuesday, 23 May 2006 18:31, Alex Balk wrote:
The only way I know of for reclaiming cached memory is to have an
application generate lots of mallocs to obtain the memory used for
cache and then free() it. I wouldn't call that a smart idea, though.
It's possible to configure some
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