Hi!
I´m trying to get my workstation running as fast as possible, and since
I´ve got hold of some extra ram ...
Please correct me if I´m wrong:
Linux uses most of the free ram for caching (read+write), up to a
certain percentage which is kept free for general purposes. afaik this
is one of the reasons why linux quasi out-of-the-box does most tasks
faster than the redmond stuff.
As long as I had 128 megs there were ~ 3 megs free with some 60 megs
used for buffers. Now I have 320 megs ram, but only about 150 are used
for buffers, 100 are free.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 321784 224244 97540 11820 155660 10608
-/+ buffers/cache: 57976 263808
Swap: 128516 80436 48080
What can I do to increase the amount of ram used for buffering/caching
so that only 5-10 % are left free? (Or would that be a "bad idea" (tm)?)
If I´m not mistaken the whole swapped-out pages should acutually fit
into the free ram, so swapping here seems rather, umm, less than
optimal?
The system is an up-to-date potato
Linux cruncher 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686 unknown
TIA for every hint (and FM to R ;),
&rw
