On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Jeff Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Alberto Trevi?o wrote:
> > On Monday, April 04, 2011 3:02:19 PM Jeff Anderson wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This question is frequently posed by those new to Linux: "Where has all
> > > my ram gone?!
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:18:00PM -0600, Alberto Trevi?o wrote:
> On Monday, April 04, 2011 3:02:19 PM Jeff Anderson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This question is frequently posed by those new to Linux: "Where has all
> > my ram gone?!"
> >
> > The answer is disk caching!
> >
> > I'd like to do so
On Monday, April 04, 2011 3:02:19 PM Jeff Anderson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This question is frequently posed by those new to Linux: "Where has all
> my ram gone?!"
>
> The answer is disk caching!
>
> I'd like to do some testing where I'll be firing up about 7 virtual
> machines on my workstation. I'
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 03:02:19PM -0600, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>
> This question is frequently posed by those new to Linux: "Where has all my ram
> gone?!"
>
> The answer is disk caching!
Which, of course, is almost always a good thing.
> I'd like to do some testing where I'll be firing up abo
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Jeff Anderson wrote:
>
> I've found the /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches location, but I'm not clear on
> whether
> this is a one-shot drop, or if it'll actually disable caching. If it's a
> one
> shot drop, it isn't terribly useful, but will help some if I drop once a
> min
Hello,
This question is frequently posed by those new to Linux: "Where has all my ram
gone?!"
The answer is disk caching!
I'd like to do some testing where I'll be firing up about 7 virtual machines
on my workstation. I'm using qemu+kvm, which does a good job about not
grabbing ram until it is u
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> Many other commands don't and
> shouldn't have special cases. Try "ls .*" or "mv .* some-other-dir" or
> any other command using the ".*" glob. To get the desired behavior in
> general for such situations, you have to specify ".??* .[^.]"
This one has caught me twice over the years:
chmod -R go-rwx subdir/.*
On the next reboot things fail because the entire file system is no longer
readable to anyone but the file owner.
I switched to ZSH after this conversation last week, and I am liking it. I just
wish that on Ubuntu the defau
On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 09:58:04AM -0600, Peter McNabb wrote:
>
> I tried it:
>
> $ mkdir /tmp/foo; cd /tmp/foo; touch .a; touch b; rm -rf .*; ls -al
> rm: cannot remove directory: `.'
> rm: cannot remove directory: `..'
> total 8
> drwxrwxr-x 2 pmcnabb pmcnabb 4096 Apr 3 09:59 .
> drwxrwxrwt.
