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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:30:04PM +0100, James wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 19:01 +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > Not that I'm aware of. Linux uses all the spare RAM for cache,
> > because having spare RAM unused would be a waste. If a process
> > actually needs more RAM (because it's starting up and allocating
> > memory, say), then some files are evicted from cache to make space.
>
> It uses it *very* aggressively, though, and seemingly with no way to
> restrain it. To the point where copying a few large (order gigabytes)
> files will cause the cache to grow to over 3/4 physical, and push out a
> lot of stuff allocated to applications I'm using (including X). And then
> interactivity just plummets. (I seem to remember a certain scientific
> app that uses large amounts of RAM getting swapped out, too.)
I've never seen this happen -- even when copying large files
around. I would suggest that you have something else going on.
Hugo.
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