On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 08:56:39AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As a user I know it because I didn't put a kernel source into /tmp. A > programm can't reasonably know that. Various apps requires you (admin/user) to tune the size of their caches. Seems like you never tried to setup a database, oh well. > Xen has its own memory pool and can quite agressively reclaim memory > from dom0 when needed. I just ment to say that the number in The whole point is if there's not enough ram of course... this is why you should check. > /proc/meminfo can change in a second so it is not much use knowing > what it said last minute. The numbers will change depending on what's running on your system. It's up to you to know plus I normally keep vmstat monitored in the background to see how the cache/free levels change over time. Those numbers are worthless if they could be fragmented... > I would kill any programm that does that to find out how much free ram > the system has. The admin should do that if he's unsure, not a program of course! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
