On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:28:43AM -1000, Jeff Wong wrote: > This is normal. As far as linux is concerned, free memory is > wasted memory. If there is alot of unused memory linux will > automatically grab it for disk/file buffering and will keep it > until some other process requests a memory allocation. If your > using top, the amount of memory being used for this buffering > is reported at the end of the 3rd line. While not exactly 'free > memory' the delay it takes to deallocate from the buffer pool > isn't very long and its started before the small pool of actual > free memory is exhausted.
Ah. I had thought that only applied to swap. -Vince
