[oclug] RH7.1 memory usage

[bbarnett at L8R.net]

On 24-Apr-2001 Gregory Gee wrote:
> 
>   Just to give you an idea.
> 
> 
>  12:37am  up  1:50,  6 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
> 67 processes: 66 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states:  1.2% user,  0.4% system,  0.0% nice, 97.3% idle
> CPU1 states:  1.0% user,  1.1% system,  0.0% nice, 97.2% idle
> Mem:   190712K av,  188796K used,    1916K free,       0K shrd,   13748K buff
> Swap:  265032K av,      64K used,  264968K free                  110064K
> cached

Greg, this is what you want.  You want linux to use ALL your memory, as much of
it as it can!  Most of that ram in use is being used by old libs, cached info,
stuff that COULD be purged from memory.. but why bother, when something may
need it again?

It saves time to have it handy, and if some application needs space that old
unused data is sitting in, THEN it gets purged.  Why do it before?

Ah, the beauty of linux ;)


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