On Friday 08 February 2002 02:19, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> The Linux philosophy is "unused RAM is wasted RAM". After all, there's no
> point in having the RAM you spent good money on sitting around doing
> nothing. Unlike Windows, Linux will try to fill up _all_ of your RAM. If
> there is any left after all your apps are loaded, it will be used to cache
> the hard drive. Since the hard drive is by far the slowest part of any
> system, this can bring huge performance improvements. IMHO, the best way to
> speed up a system is to have more RAM than you need. Even with the recent
> RAM price rises, this is still a bargain. Not only will your hard drive be
> cached, you also minimise HDD accesses by eliminating the need to use swap.
Very true. This (below) with only konsole and kmail open:
[skinky]skinky$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1157748 915700 242048 0 178312 459632
-/+ buffers/cache: 277756 879992
Swap: 200772 0 200772
skinky
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