> would be flushed. But why doesn't Linux do this on it's own? There are 27 MB
It frees it when memory is needed.
> free, as the field above says. These are 30 MB! But if I'd like to use something
> like these clustering-programs that look at the free RAM and CPU-time, they get
> wrong results because of this buffers, don't they? So how can I reduce the size
> of these buffers?
It should be relatively straightforward to adjust the clustering
program to return (free_mem + buffermem - (buffermem/4)) instead
of just free_mem...
Rik.
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