Gradual Increase in memory usage

Paul unix at bikesn4x4s.com
Fri Feb 6 16:40:38 UTC 2004


> Uttered "Peter Santiago" <peters at psinergybbs.com>, spake thus:
>
>> > I take that back.  Checking again today, it's using the whole 1 gig
>> and
>> > then
>> > some.
>>
>> I guess that's how the VM module really works..... I wonder if they have
>> changed that behavior in the 2.6 kernel....????
>
> Ideally, _all_ of real memory should be in use.  That just means the
> kernel is making maximal use of kernel buffering.  It's really a Good
> Thing After All (GTAA ;-).

Yea, makes sense.  Why leave it sit there doing nothing.  It's still seems
to perform better.  I if I install max ram at 2 gigs, I guess it would use
all of that also.  Hey, I can't complain, the system seems to perform
excellent.





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