Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Jun 2001 13:23:29 +0200 | From | "Martin.Knoblauch" <> | Subject | VM: Buffer vs. Cache |
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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 still at 20 MB (a bit down maybe) but Buffered is 50 MB and Cached is 55 MB. For a few minutes the system is definitely more sluggish than in the evening. Something I can excuse before my first cup of coffe anyway...
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.
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