On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 19:07, Stephen Kühn wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I remember being entirely s
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:07:23 +1100
Stephen Kühn disseminated the following:
> > > 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 caus
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. S
> 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 des
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:03 pm, Eric Scott wrote:
> Yo;
> I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server. As
> time passes the available memory steadily goes down. For example: I
> rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB
> of free me
