Am 13.11.2011 14:32, schrieb John J. Boyer: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is >> absolutely normal to have "Free Memory" go down to a fairly small level >> and have Buffers and Cache grow > Why does Linux do this? It seems odd to me because taht is why linux is in some cases thousand times faster as reading the same things over and over from the disk and why would you install many GB memory if it is unused target of a modern operating system is using 16 GB of 16 GB memory after some time and if any application requests actively memory the oldest caches/buffers are reclaimed to the app [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ uptime 17:14:54 up 3:54, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.12 [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 16035 15366 668 0 118 12951 -/+ buffers/cache: 2296 13738 Swap: 2047 0 2047
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