On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote: > > Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but > > if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority > > app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs. > > I like this one. Some times ago I bought a 512 MB memory chip for my desktop > PC already with 256 MB memory running MDK 9.1. Before I turned on it I tought > that I'd have quite a lot free memory. But unluckily, I just found I had > around 200 MB free memory (Without this new 512 MB chip, I remembered the > free memory is over 100 MB then). But when I run some matlab program, it > used over 500 MB memory which is what I needed. So I don't worry too much > about it now. > > Q.H.
Yeah - some folks try to assign their understanding of how *nix uses it's memory to that of how MSDOS/MS Windows uses it's memory - two different dogs altogether. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales ----------------------------------------------- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? ----------------------------------------------- Life is too short to be taken seriously. -- Oscar Wilde
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