Re: VM: Buffer vs. Cache

2001-06-19 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
Jonathan Morton wrote: > > > > > So, what actually is the difference between Buffered and Cached. > >Apparently quite a lot of the pages that are Cached in the evening are > >Buffered 9 houres later. > > Think about what happens in the meantime. Most distros install maintenance > scripts which

Re: VM: Buffer vs. Cache

2001-06-08 Thread Jonathan Morton
> just being curious. Since 2.4.4, I am watching my systems memory >behaviour a bit:-) Just recently I realized the following: in the >evening I leave my 128MB system at about 20 MB, 2 MB Buffered and 100 MB >Cached (plus som 40 MB unneccesary swap :-)). When I come back in the >morning, Used is s

VM: Buffer vs. Cache

2001-06-08 Thread Martin.Knoblauch
Hi, just being curious. Since 2.4.4, I am watching my systems memory behaviour a bit:-) Just recently I realized the following: in the evening I leave my 128MB system at about 20 MB, 2 MB Buffered and 100 MB Cached (plus som 40 MB unneccesary swap :-)). When I come back in the morning, Used is s