On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:49:21PM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: > Hi, > > AFAIK, even if there was a gig of ram in there, it would not allocate any > (or maybe just a little) to free memory, and would throw any free memory > into buffers anyway. > > So 68M of buffers tells me it has ample free memory, it or wouldn't > allocate so much there anyway, right?
Right, it probably would not allocate any more memory for the processes themselves, but my point is that "the bigger buffers, the better performance". I guess that 68 MB buffers isn't that much for such a heavily loaded machine. Marcin PS: No need to CC to me. -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://student.uci.agh.edu.pl/~porridge/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216
