On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:04, M Harris wrote: > On Tuesday 08 May 2007 19:29, Registration Account wrote: > > However, I now need to know is there a process that removes items > > from cache after a period of time or will available memory be used > > to cache continually without being flushed. > > .... The kernel uses > free available memory for cache and other purposes and efficiently > balances that with system and user demand, swap, etc.
It's common to hear people unfamiliar with Linux's memory management express concern that there is little or no free memory in there system. The best way to explain this is: "Free RAM is wasted RAM!" > ... > Run "top" from konsole and then give it the "s" command and change > the processing update to .5 (thats point five). .... and then > watch the buffers, cache, main ram etc.... I like the "System Monitor" panel applet available in KDE. To activate it (if you use KDE), right click in the panel and select "Add Applet to Panel..." and select "System Monitor." This applet shows three columns, CPU use, RAM use and Swap use. The first two show color-coded categories of resource utilization. For CPU it's kernel, user, nice, and I/O wait and for RAM, kernel, application, buffer and cache. You can customize the colors. > -- > Kind regards, > > M Harris <>< Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
