Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:51:56 -0800 | From | Adam McKenna <> | Subject | Re: VM problems in 2.4.20 |
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:04:52PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:40, Adam McKenna wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > I'm having a VM issue on one of my servers running 2.4.20. > well, the vanilla VM, hmm, sorry: sucks :) for large boxen.
Can you expand on "sucks"? 4GB is not really that large of a system anymore.
I still don't see how this memory taken up by buffers/cache is not freed when a system process needs it. I have always thought that this type of memory is by definition "lower priority", and should be dropped when a process needs more memory. Is this not the case?
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