Re: Aptitude Version: 0.4.11.2-1 eat my memory after update...

[Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr>]

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 03:39:08PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet <jeanlouis.crouzet@free.fr> was heard to say:
> > Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:
> > > available memory.
> > >
> > > #free -t
> > >
> > > You may then observe that free memory left is more than slightly  
> > > different from previous poll, let say something has been lost 
> > > somewhere...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > JL
> > So I assume I'm the only one ;-)
>
>   No, it's just that it takes more than 5 hours sometimes to get an
> answer.  This is not a bug anywhere; what you're seeing is that aptitude
> reads a lot of data and causes the buffer cache to expand.
>
>   Daniel
Hi Daniel,

Thanks for your answer. I was you know hunting for free memory since my 
system is only having 128MB which tend to be not enough those days (even 
with Linux).

Regards,
JL