Hi. Wont this result in a greater loss of data, in case a powerbreak occurs? What exactly is the kernel caching? Files?
Eran. On Tuesday 08 July 2003 16:20, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > 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). ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
