On Jan 3, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > Here's an experiment you can do to watch the system use memory. > Open a terminal window and run top. Watch what happens when you > move a big file from one place to another. You should see the free > memory drop dramatically and then come back up again more slowly.
Well, I tried moving a single .avi file (275 MB) to other directories and also to another disk, as well as to 'copy' to other locations, but only saw about a 15 to 20 MB change. That seems rather minimal. What's wrong? Regards, Russ Preston | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
