Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Monday 29 September 2008 20:36:17 Aditya Godbole wrote: >> >> No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at least >> in >> linux. If you have same installation on a 512MB RAM and 128 MB RAM machine >> and >> start identical sets of program, the usage won't be identical. >> > > Quite remarkable. How does this happen? Any pointers to technical details?
Nothing remarkable about it. If you have additional memory and it is not being used to a optimum level, it is just wasted resources. Instead Linux uses it for caching. So if you are merely checking memory usage without taking cache into consideration, you would get misleading information. http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/vm/ Rahul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
