Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: Kernel cached memory | Date | Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:50:53 +0200 |
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Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 19:58 schrieb Lee Revell: > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:25 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote: > > Anyway, want to have 'free memory' is a thing like having dozens of cars > > in your garage which don't want to be used ... > > > > Really? I thought it was good to leave some memory free to speed up > application startup, so we don't have to evict a bunch of pages first.
Eviction is cheap when the pages are clean.
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