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Re: Memory usage on debian



On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Michael Naumann wrote:
> of your memory, then that is no reason to worry. Your kernel
> simply uses free memory to cache the files you already read.
> This memory area can be viewed as beeing free.

If you just came from the Windos world, think of the cache as having a
ramdisk containing only your most recent/frequently used files.

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