On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 03:55:31PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > It seems to me that my computer is using way too much memory then it is > supposed to. According to /proc/meminfo it seems to be using over 200M > with only gnome-multi-terminal and lyx with no documents running. Is > this normal?
The linux kernel does aggressive caching. Why let all that memory go to waste? See below: Cached: 127500 kB The memory will be freed by the caches whenever it will be necessary elsewhere. I'm (very) lazily working on a kernel mechanism which will allow you to say "don't let this cache grow over a given size", if you really care (some database people do). -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org http://www.livejournal.com/~mulix/
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