Le sam 10/04/2004 à 18:49, Simon Perreault a écrit : > Also, if the cache was big, almost no disk reading should happen when > starting programs. But the contrary happens: the disk starts trashing, > as if all the memory was used by some program, which seems to be the > case according to the totals, but does not seem to be the case when you > look at per-program memory usage. > Compile this program free.c : ------------------------------- void main(void) { while (1) malloc (4096) ; } ------------------------------- $ gcc free.c Check the current memory usage with "free". run "./a.out" until it crash : $ ./a.out Killed Then use the "free" command to see if you have more free memory. Just for fun.