On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:36:45AM +0200, Lenart Gabor wrote:
> Hmmm. Thanx for the info but I recognized that growing number of network
> buffer allocations results more locked memory. At my machine with 64M ram
> there is often 50M memory used and I cannot starting after this anything
> without a lot of swap area being used. It seems kernel (?) locks a large
> amount of memory and I don't know why. Even with killing all tasks except
> init can't help ...
People are always confused by Linux telling them to have no free mem. It's
true. Free mem would be a waste! Using it for caching I/O (buffer resp. page
cache) is much better.
On the other hand, it should not start to swap then, so you might have
stumbled across a real problem. What does free report?
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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> SuSE GmbH, N=FCrnberg, FRG
Linux kernel development; SCSI driver: DC390 (tmscsim/AM53C974)
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