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Re: [cobalt-users] memory use shown from free and top
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] memory use shown from free and top
- From: Jeff Lasman <blists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun Dec 21 13:35:02 2003
- Organization: nobaloney.net
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:44 pm, josh wrote:
> I have become convinced I don't understand the meaning of the output
> of the commands that show memory use. Shouldn't there be processes
> running that would eventually, reclaim memory that is not used and
> make the basic used numbers go down.
No.
> As far as I can tell, I'm really
> only using about half of the memory, most of the time. Most of it is
> available but seems to sit in the cache for reuse. This may well be
> as it is supposed to be,
It is.
> but shouldn't it eventually - say during
> relatively quiet times be reclaimed by the system, so the numbers go
> down.
No.
Jeff
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