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Re: free cached memory



On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:00:53PM +0000, gmorais wrote:
| when I use free in command line I get:
| 
|             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
| Mem:        449300     219144     230156          0       5560     149084
| -/+ buffers/cache:      64500     384800
| Swap:            0          0          0
| 
| my question is:
| 
| there is any problem || related to the fact that my cached memory is so 
| much occupied?

No.  You paid for the memory, you might as well get your money's worth
:-).

| and if there is, how can I free it?

When a program requests some memory, some of the disk cache will be
flushed and the memory given to the program.  It is not a problem, and
it yields a performance advantage.

-D

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