Subject: Re: increasing memory usage
From: Andrew (powermac@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 18:20:21 MDT
Thanks very much. This makes sense.
Andrew
>the reason it does this is that linux reserves all of your memory and then
>deals it out as needed. this is why when you search for something the
>first time it takes a while but the next time you do it it does it
>quickly. the information that is needed has been stored for later
>use. check out www.dartmouth.edu/~john/lppc-server/cache/408.html. but
>relax this is the way that linux works
>
>On Thu, 25 May 2000, Andrew T wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> This is not really a big problem (I think) but more a question why.
>> I have YD running smoothly on my iBook SE with 128 megs RAM. The problem
>> is that when I boot it shows approx 20 megs used. When running X this
>> jumps to around 40 or 50 megs used (understandable) but after a while even
>> if all I run is a terminal window the usage can jump up to the full 120
>> some megs of usage. I quit X but the ram remains used. Is there any
>> reason to this or a way to "purge" the memory every once and a while?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Andrew
>>
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