Re: memory handling in pre5/pre6

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Apr 18 2000 - 04:03:08 EST


   Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 10:59:20 +0200
   From: Lech Szychowski <lech.szychowski@pse.pl>

   ...left it running without X until I logged in this morning...

 ...

   ...and here it is:

   10:56 [lech(q1)$/home/lech7] cat /proc/meminfo
           total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
   Mem: 523792384 518934528 4857856 0 46952448 298246144
   Swap: 542826496 577536 542248960

The nightly cron jobs which ran at 04:00 on your machine scanned the
whole file system, so filled up the buffer and page caches.

This does not say anything about the swapping, I'm just letting
you know where the free memory went to and why :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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