On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Richard Elling wrote:
Given that I don't believe there is any other memory pressure on the
system, why isn't the ARC using that last 1G of ram?
Simon says, "don't do that" ? ;-)
Yes, primarily since if there is no more memory immediately available,
performance when starting new processes would suck. You need to
reserve some working space for processes and short term requirements.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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