Oscar wrote: > Run an application in Windows. Fast!... but... suppose the application hangs. > What happens to windows?... > Run an application in Linux. Less fast... but... suppose the application > hangs. > What happens to Linux? The security has a price ;-)
You have a point, but I've used Windows for so long that I've learned ways to avoid or minimize crashes. > BTW, these answers are not referred to the original subject by Fred: > $ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 223360 219292 4068 236 576 115792 > I suppose he's talking about the "cached" memory. > But I don't know the answer. > Any idea? Yes, I suppose he is, or generally the swap (I keep top running in a console). I don't know of a way to reduce the amount of cached memory used -- I think your system will slow down if Linux wants to swap something out of memory and doesn't find any swap available. regards, Randy Kramer
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