Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 8 Sep 1996 11:04:48 +0300 (EET DST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: cache eating memory in 2.0.18?? |
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On 7 Sep 1996 ulmo@q.net wrote: > > cache (instead of buff) seems to be eating memory now in 2.0.18. > > It doesn't seem to happen as horribly as with buff bloat though. > > Is this behavoir correct?:
Without knowing exactly how the machine depends, I'd say that it is indeed correct, and nothing to worry about.
One thing that makes the "cache" number look large is that the cache is very tightly shared with process pages, and essentially any code pages in memory will generally be in the cache too. So it's not uncommon to have quite large numbers for cache if you're running lots of programs: it doesn't necessarily mean that the actual filesystem cache is very large, it can just mean that there are lots of unmodified code pages in memory..
Linus
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