On Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 01:31 Cy wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:23:08 -0700
> Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > Uh, I'd take issue with "poorly designed". Maybe misunderstood.
>
> I don't mean the page cache is a bad idea. I mean that "MemFree" should be
> called
> something like "MemInactive" and
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:25:45 -0700
Michael Ewan wrote:
> Kill -9 cannot be handled in the program, it kills
> the program immediately leaving open files, memory allocations, swap space,
> and all kinds of other stuff like child processes laying around.
kill -9 aka SIGKILL is almost always a
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022 01:23:08 -0700
Russell Senior wrote:
> Uh, I'd take issue with "poorly designed". Maybe misunderstood.
I don't mean the page cache is a bad idea. I mean that "MemFree" should be
called
something like "MemInactive" and "MemAvailable" should be called "MemFree" in
I tell my students that kill -9 is evil and to not use it (except when
everything else fails). Kill -9 cannot be handled in the program, it kills
the program immediately leaving open files, memory allocations, swap space,
and all kinds of other stuff like child processes laying around. You are
To all:
Regarding recovering both memory and swap space, after killing an
algebraic program, I restarted the system, rand some of these types of
programs, then reached a point where I had to shut the system down, so I
tried using the kill -15 command to kill the running algebraic programs,
On Sat, Aug 27, 2022 at 7:50 PM Cy wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:32:54 -0700
> American Citizen wrote:
>
> > Once I kill the algebraic
> > program, shouldn't we see system memory recovered?
>
> That sounds a lot like the hard disk caching thing that Linux does. It
> will save stuff
> read
On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:32:54 -0700
American Citizen wrote:
> Once I kill the algebraic
> program, shouldn't we see system memory recovered?
That sounds a lot like the hard disk caching thing that Linux does. It will
save stuff
read from the hard disk into unused memory, so that if it's read
On 8/27/22 13:32, American Citizen wrote:
> Hello all, this is a question about freeing up system memory and swap
> space as apparently this is not happening from some mathematical
> programs I am using
>
> ...
>
> There appears to be a problem occurring here, as used memory never
> recovered and
Hello all, this is a question about freeing up system memory and swap
space as apparently this is not happening from some mathematical
programs I am using
Running 6 algebraic programs for several days, the %free -m command shows:
total used free shared
