Re: About _real_ free memory

[Måns Rullgård]

"Frederick, Fabian" <Fabian.Frederick@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Is there a way to clean cache from unwanted data or something to
> unlink the stuff and regain some more 'free' mem. ?

If a process tries to allocate and use more than the really free
amount, some cache will be dropped automatically.  From a performance
point of view, this could of course be undesirable, but normally
there's no need to think about it.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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