On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> John,
>
> Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even
> intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even
> Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control
> how much physical RAM
John,
Thats kind of what I thought. I wasn't even sure if my question was even
intelligent in Linux. I know that in the old school days of OS/2 and even
Windows 95 it was a good idea to hack away at a config file or two to control
how much physical RAM was being used as a disk cache. Perhaps this
The swap is used for storing data you are not using to free up some RAM when a
program needs it. I don't think you can control how the swap is used, or how
much swap is being used. It depends on what role your machine is playing; is it
a file server? or just a worksation? My system has 96Mb of RAM
What is the benifit of UNUSED RAM?? RAM used for cache can be cashed in
(pun intended). It will be flushed and used for programs, data, buffers,
etc. when needed by the kernel.
Bill
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Am Mon, 24 Apr 2000 schrieben Sie:
> Linux will manage the memory space so that if there's some more useful
> use for the memory it'll take back the disk cache space. Run enough
> applications that need the space and it'll shrink up real nice.
>
> If you have applications actuallly dying from la
Linux will manage the memory space so that if there's some more useful
use for the memory it'll take back the disk cache space. Run enough
applications that need the space and it'll shrink up real nice.
If you have applications actuallly dying from lack of memory while the
disk cache is still l
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In Mandrake, is there a way where I can control the amount of memory being
> used as a disk cache? I've noticed that sometimes Mandrake is using almost
> 100MB of physcial RAM as a disk cache, especially after doing something
> intensive such as compil
