On 13 July 2010 20:22, Sean Gibbins wrote:
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> Did anyone else initially read the subject as 'Linux RAM sausages'?
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> *sigh*
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> Sean
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Must have been watching those Sex Ed programs on Channel 4 recently. ;-)
I was quite surprised how explicit they were. Almost cracked my sides
laughing!!!
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Chris Dennis wrote:
On 13/07/10 20:22, Sean Gibbins wrote:
Did anyone else initially read the subject as 'Linux RAM sausages'?
*sigh*
No. You must be hungry.
But now you mention it - Hmm sausage and bacon sarnies.
Must stop for brekkies now.
Jacqui
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On 13/07/10 20:22, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 13/07/10 17:59, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
I notice that Linux tends to always use about 95% of RAM all the time,
for cache mostly.
Is there any sysctl that could move this to 80% ?
Please don't ask me why because the answer it stupid!!!
Kind Reg
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:23 +0100, Dee Earley wrote:
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> That sounds more like an IO/bandwidth problem to me.
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Well, the raw throughput is always very good...
James
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On 13/07/2010 19:30, James wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 19:01 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
Not that I'm aware of. Linux uses all the spare RAM for cache,
because having spare RAM unused would be a waste. If a process
actually needs more RAM (because it's starting up and allocating
memory, say),
On 13/07/10 17:59, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
Hi,
I notice that Linux tends to always use about 95% of RAM all the time,
for cache mostly.
Is there any sysctl that could move this to 80% ?
Please don't ask me why because the answer it stupid!!!
Kind Regards
James
Did anyone else initia
>I've never seen this happen -- even when copying large files
> around.
What do you have set for /proc/sys/vm/swappiness?
> I would suggest that you have something else going on.
Firefox is the one that usually sets my machine off. Eventually, it gets
to a GC loop that doesn't finish :-(
V
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:30:04PM +0100, James wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 19:01 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> >Not that I'm aware of. Linux uses all the spare RAM for cache,
> > because having spare RAM unused would be a waste. If a process
> > actually needs more RAM (because it's starting u
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 19:01 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
>Not that I'm aware of. Linux uses all the spare RAM for cache,
> because having spare RAM unused would be a waste. If a process
> actually needs more RAM (because it's starting up and allocating
> memory, say), then some files are evicted fr
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:59:46PM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I notice that Linux tends to always use about 95% of RAM all the time,
> for cache mostly.
> Is there any sysctl that could move this to 80% ?
Not that I'm aware of. Linux uses all the spare RAM for cache,
because having s
Hi,
I notice that Linux tends to always use about 95% of RAM all the time,
for cache mostly.
Is there any sysctl that could move this to 80% ?
Please don't ask me why because the answer it stupid!!!
Kind Regards
James
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