Re: Kernel cached memory

From: Lee Revell
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 13:01:14 EST


On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:25 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> Anyway, want to have 'free memory' is a thing like having dozens of cars
> in your garage which don't want to be used ...
>

Really? I thought it was good to leave some memory free to speed up
application startup, so we don't have to evict a bunch of pages first.

Lee

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