On 2011-01-25 21:48 +0100, Celejar wrote: > You're right; I see now that 'free' reports only 317376 free. This is > a laptop, and I do hibernate it a couple of times a day, so I suppose > that the cache(s) are thrown away to use the RAM for hibernation (and > to avoid pointlessly saving cached disk data in RAM back to disk), and > then when the system is restored, the RAM becomes free again until it's > once again used for cache or application storage?
Yes, that's it (compare the output of "free" before and after hibernating to convince yourself). If you don't want to get your cache blown away, use suspend (to RAM) rather than hibernation. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
