Re: not enough memory

Alistair Riddell (alistair@watsons.edin.sch.uk)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 17:32:38 +0000 (GMT)

Memory which is not otherwise in use is used to buffer disk access. This
results in much greater performance than reading/writing to the disk
synchronously. Unless you know exactly what you are doing then there isn't
really any reason to turn off this feature.

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Karsten Patzwaldt wrote:

> A short time ago, I watched my free memory. I recognized the following: The
> longer the system is up, the fewer free memory is left. The used memory grows
> and grows, but if I close some applications, the memory isn't freed, is it? So I
> have 78 MB of my 80 MB used. Is this a bug or a performance-feature? If it is
> the last, how can I switch it off?

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