This is not due to free memory, but to the way the scheduler works. This
probably seems related to free memory, as the more processes, the less
memory ;-)
Kernel 2.6 has a much nicer scheduler. (too bad, sleep still has
problems - at least for me).
Where do I get the source for the benh 2.6 kern
Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used,
> >this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching
> >purposes.
> >
>
> So I presume that memory is reallocated if I want to start up an app
> even though the util
Vincent Bernat wrote:
If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used,
this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching
purposes.
So I presume that memory is reallocated if I want to start up an app
even though the utilization is 100%.. somehow it j
On Oct 02 2003, Vincent Bernat wrote:
> If you have bought 640 MB of RAM, I suppose you want them to be used,
> this ies exactly what Linux does. Unused memory is used for caching
> purposes.
Since we're talking about chaches here, excuse my ignorance, but what is
the difference between caches an
OoO En cette fin de nuit blanche du jeudi 02 octobre 2003, vers 06:41,
Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait:
> Another related qn.. the memory usage statistic using top doesn't show
> memory freeing up after I close some heavy duty programs like
> Openoffice and mozilla that I had running.. so
Another related qn.. the memory usage statistic using top doesn't show
memory freeing up after I close some heavy duty programs like Openoffice
and mozilla that I had running.. so in effect, the memory usage grows
till almost 100% of the memory is used up but it never comes back down..
so I s
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