On Apr 8, 2005 7:57 PM, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > overall, you WANT the system to eat all your memory!!! what's the > point of having the memory if you don't use it? linux will always eat > all the memory that\s unused by processes, to use as disk cache. the > cache/buffers will go down as the number of applications you are > running goes up.
the original poster should look at the swap in/out stats in 'vmstat' - that's what kills. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
