Re: Kernel buffers
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:12:08PM +0100, Josep Llauradó Selvas wrote:
> Buffer cache eats up main protions of physical memory, currently
> 250Mb!!!. It's 'cos it's unused and the kernel leave it if any process
> will need more memory
AFAIK yes. Kernel tries to turn as much free memory into
buffers as it can. This is good, because it will make the
system use disk less frequently. Kernel will also shrink the
memory devoted to buffers if some program needs it.
Marcin
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