Re: not enough memory

Karsten Patzwaldt (kpa@gmx.net)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 15:58:30 +0100

Di Iorio Gerardo wrote:
>
> Linux use part of memory for cache.See the output of command free
Oh, sorry, but I'm not this silly. The problem is: why the memory isn't freed?
OK, I think that the field in the line '+/- buffers' and the column 'free' (this
field says that there are 57 MB free) is the memory I would have if the buffers
would be flushed. But why doesn't Linux do this on it's own? There are 27 MB
free, as the field above says. These are 30 MB! But if I'd like to use something
like these clustering-programs that look at the free RAM and CPU-time, they get
wrong results because of this buffers, don't they? So how can I reduce the size
of these buffers?
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Karsten Patzwaldt                                                   kpa@gmx.net
                        "Wisdom is earned... not given."






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