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Re: [cobalt-users] Buffered memory
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Buffered memory
- From: "Jens Kristian Søgaard" <jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu May 24 03:13:10 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
Hi,
> I have a problem with a RAQ3 that seems to buffer a very large part of
> its RAM memory. Before I run tinydns and dnscache in the same time the
> usage of the memory it's about 40 MB RAM but after that it's about 512
> MB RAM but 445 MB are buffered.
Yes, and it is supposed to be that way. Buffers are used for improving system performance.
> after command "free"
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 517196 513692 3504 9720 445880 11372
> -/+ buffers/cache: 56440 460756
> Swap: 131536 44 131492
> Do you know any program that will try to use so much memory?
You're reading the program output wrong. It actually tells you, that the amount of free memory (in the way you understand free) is 460 megabytes.
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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/