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Re: memory...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Mon Sep 27 14:21:01 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 93 14:20:15 EDT
From: tytso@mit.edu (Theodore Ts'o)
To: warlord@incommunicado.cambridge.ma.us
Cc: linux-dev@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Derek Atkins's message of Sun, 26 Sep 93 01:49 GMT,
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 93 01:49 GMT
From: warlord@incommunicado.cambridge.ma.us (Derek Atkins)
This is under Linux 0.99 pl 12. There is something wrong here!
I have 20 Meg of RAM. Here are the current running processes.
Following that list is the current amount of "free" memory I
have. This seems like a bug to me! Suggestions? I plan to
try the pl10 kernel, as soon as I can grab a copy of it (I'll
probably grab quiche's /usr/src/linux tomorrow.)
> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 19052 12400 6652 1644 10288
Swap: 0 0 0
No bug; Linux shares memory between the program pages and the buffer
cache. Right now you have roughly 16 megabytes of memory available to
you; 6 megabytes isn't being used at all, and 10 megabytes is being used
for your buffer cache. As you need more memory for running programs,
the buffer cache will automatically resize itself.
- Ted
