John Alvord wrote:
>
> The memory not used for other purposes is used as a disk cache. Easily
> discarded and maximizes performance. john
>
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2000 00:10:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >hello all!
> >
> >machine 1
> >Twin pI 133 64MB 256k cache linux 2.2.13 SMP
> >top (w/no other programs running) 34-40 mb of used memory
> >
> >machine 2
> >twin pIII 450 128MB sdram linux 2.2.12 SMP
> >top (w/no other programs running) 15mb memory used
> >
> >Similarly configured kernals. Enough disk space on both. What gives?
> >Does anybody have a clue why memory on the twin pI 133 machine is twice
> >as big as the other machine?
> > Thanks for your replies,
> > -al
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How would one get rid of this extra disk cache? also, on this same
machine (the pI 133 dual), top reveals 19800k buffer. My twin pIII has
maybe 700k buffer. I don't want to appear ignorant about this, bu t why
so much buffer? anybody know?
-thanks
al
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