**************************************** * LUG meet on 12 Jan. 2003 @ VJTI ****************************************
hi there, On Monday 30 December 2002 15:14, you wrote: > > Happy new year to all.... > > > > I have almost the same problem, > > > > more in depth explanation from all the great masters will be appreciated > > What happens in some memory management algorithms is that even if the > dirty buffers (bufferes which are modified in the RAM) are written to the > HDD the RAM is not freed. So if a process again wants the same page (memory [snip] > To just verify that swap space is working (dont you trust Linus) what you > probably can do is that start approx 20 instances of mozilla (approx 15*20 > = 300MB RAM) or a VMware session and ask it to use 80% of the existing RAm, 20 processes of mozilla wont take up 20*15 MB of ram. How do i know ? well i tried it. its about 46 MB. I guess the majority of the space is taken up by the code, so its reusable. > > > > Ripunjay Bararia rahul -- The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. -- _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
