hey all,
how does one control how much memory Linux caches?
Is it done? Is it supposed to be done? Is it beneficial to to so? :)
I ask because, my new 256mb machine seems to have very little free memory,
being as how most of it is cached, and a large chunk of it is buffered.
The machine doesn't seem slow, so I'm guessing the kernel is taking care to
dynamically structure memory usage... but... it's a little weird seeing so
little memory free :) It makes me think I'm wasting memory.
Here is what it looks like:
Mem: 255544K av, 250936K used, 4608K free, 0K shrd, 4444K buff
Swap: 104384K av, 0K used, 104384K free 210676K cached
I'm running 2.4-test12, in case it differs from the 2.2 series.
thx
-Gabriel
