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




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