> On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Peter K wrote:
> >
> > Ugh ! Observe the memory usage !
> >
> > total used free shared buffers cached
> > Mem: 47088 46504 584 5596 31952 3228
> > -/+ buffers: 11324 35764
>
> Ok, "buffers" is obviously _way_ too high. But I can't really say that I
> see why this would be so - none of the changes seem to be relevant. Can
> you do a "shift+ScrollLock" to see what it reports about the buffers (are
> they all dirty, or what?). Does it make a difference if you do a "sync"
> by hand (maybe kflushd has some problems with the wait queue and isn't
> getting woken up?)
I did <shift><scrl-lck> which showed no funnies.
Anyway, applied your latest and <yawn, yawn, boring, boring> seems to work.
Tks !
(BTW, Linus, you get time to "vacation" on your holiday ?)
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