>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> quaternion:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 256104 251680 4424 0 67536 66640
> -/+ buffers/cache: 117504 138600
> Swap: 0 0 0
> quaternion:~$ ./src/crap
> zsh: killed ./src/crap
> quaternion:~$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 256104 59900 196204 0 6828 13932
> -/+ buffers/cache: 39140 216964
> Swap: 0 0 0
Colin> The usual cause of this one is as follows: to start with, you
Colin> have a fairly quiet system with lots of data in the kernel's
Colin> cache - see the 'buffers' and 'cached' entries - held there
Colin> against the possibility that it will be needed in the
Colin> future.
Hm... then why the numbers after "-/+ buffers/cache" can decrease (by nearly
80M) after running such crap? There is no swap, so nothing can migrate
there. Perhaps some clean mmapped pages are simply removed from memory?
(Does Linux do that?) I simply can't tell for sure.
Regards,
Isaac.
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