Hi all, A few months ago I talked with some people on this list about excessive caching on laptop computers. We could not find a solution. Howevber, the title of the thread was cryptic, so I hope that with the new title more people will react.
We noticed that that copying a file or making extensive access to the
hard drive ate up all the memory. For instance, when I copy a 200Mo
file from one partition to another (same physical HD), the file copies
fine but 200Mo of RAM get eaten up in the process. The question is :
Is this gentoo related ? Is this kernel related ? Is this hardware
related ? I may add that this seems to be vendor independent since
both Dell and Toshiba laptops seem to have the same problem.
Thanks in advance,
Jonathan
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