Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Warne <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.28 -> ch..ch...changes.... | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 15:42:27 +0000 |
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On Friday 26 November 2004 11:53, Nix wrote: > On 24 Nov 2004, Nick Warne mused: > > Normally memory slowly fills up, perhaps using swap for a bit under these > > circumstances - but looking afterwards: > > This is a feature, not a bug. Free memory is wasted memory (although > some has to be kept free for drivers that need GFP_ATOMIC allocations: > i.e. `memory *now* dammit *now*'. > > > root@linuxamd:~# free > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 1292348 520012 772336 0 38596 327304 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 154112 1138236 > > Swap: 1959888 0 1959888 > > The only thing I can think of that causes this is something very > memory-hungry that's just been killed, releasing a pile of pages back to > the system. > > > But whatever, I am impressed indeed - somethings changed for the good!!! > > I see no signs of such a change on my 2.4.28 boxes:
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Ummm. I do, though. Maybe the cause is I am getting more experienced, and building kernels now, I _do_ the right things. But for some reason I do find 2.4.28 a lot more responsive to memory usage - I really do.
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