Re: Amount of free mem decreasing..
From: Steven G. Kargl (kargl_at_c-67-168-59-70.client.comcast.net)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:21:05 GMT
In article <10t7ms9r0t2ra4f@corp.supernews.com>,
"nntp" <asf@sadfkj.cosdf> writes:
> Gotcha.. Thanks for the info..
>
> I was under the impression that this was something bad and that i would run
> out of memory next week thus needing a reboot. Your explination sounds good
> to me.
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm.html
It's called the buffer cache. How many times do you do
an "ls" or "rm" or "cd" during a session? Do you really
want to read the command from the hard drive every time
or grab it from cache memory.
-- Steve
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