memory usage

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) y.lesaint at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 14:24:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 14:51 -0400, neocon2005 wrote:
> Thank you very much for the link to the Gentoo forum. A little bit of
> knowledge about how Linux manages memory has put my mind to ease (not
> that I am an expert on Linux memory management now). I will no longer
> be surprised to see my RAM being close to full. From what I understood
> in reading the Gentoo forum post, it is not a terrible thing to have a
> bloated swap either. Am I correct?

  Yes, that's what swappiness is all about : swapping unused
applications memory to increase the amount of available cache (as
pointed out by the excellent gentoo forums).


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Regards.

Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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