On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 05:25:37PM +0300, ik wrote: > Does the kernel do something with the memory afther X amount of time, or > does it continue to stay until the reboot has done ?
As soon as your memory exits, all of the physical memory it was using is released back to the system. Some of it might be retained in caches, but those will be shrunk as soon as the memory is needed elsewhere. > I'll appriciate any information about it, including pointed out to RTFM on > the subject. http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/free-mem.html Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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