Re: Heavy load of graphics

[Ray Olszewski]

At 10:07 AM 10/7/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:
Want to free memory?
$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        223708     220120       3588          0      28356     107936
-/+ buffers/cache:      83828     139880
Swap:       128480       3996     124484
$ locate /usr/bin/f* or x* or g* ...
$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        223708      41364     182344          0       1520      28592
-/+ buffers/cache:      11252     212456
Swap:       128480       5056     123424
Peter -- This is a pretty strange consequence of running the "locate" 
command. And I cannot replicate it here. For example:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        773892     742056      31836          0      87600     441912
-/+ buffers/cache:     212544     561348
Swap:            0          0          0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locate /usr/bin/f*
/usr/bin/factor
[about 40 more lines, deleted here]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        773892     742076      31816          0      87608     441924
-/+ buffers/cache:     212544     561348
Swap:            0          0          0
Any idea what's causing the change on your system? My understanding of 
Linux says it shouldn't work the way you report seeing it, so I'm wondering 
what I am missing.


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