Re: is debian eating my memory?
On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude <Your Jacob Schmude <jacobs@ncinter.net> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have
> 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is
> debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's
> dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't
> enable shadow ram or something?
>
Whenever you access a file, linux tries to keep that file in memory.
Hence your memory is full of data from the disk that is placed in the
file cache/buffers. Of course if a program needs memory the first thing
thrown out of memory is the file cache.
Pete
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