-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 27 June 2003 12:44, scott.marlowe wrote: > This is actually normal. Look at the amount cached: 6257620K. That's > 6.2Gig of cache. Linux is using only 6517776k - 6257620k of memory, the > rest is just acting as kernel cache. If anything tries to allocate a bit > of memory, linux will flush enough cache to give the memory to the > application that needs it. >
I think it is appropriate to add that the Linux kernel does this in an extremely innovative and intelligent way. The more room you give your kernel to cache, the more responsive it is going to be. - -- Jonathan Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (was [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Live Free, Use Linux! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/AF8EWgwF3QvpWNwRArmVAJwK5C2ExmS8Rayrne33UJ0KZZM4UgCgq7b5 3J1LGtofgtnKq/bPtF75lNI= =4Not -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly