jmcmullan@linuxcare.com wrote:
>
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
>
> > It is a very common situation that systems have no free memory but
> > tons of easily _freeable_ memory, like cache or pages which are
> > duplicated in both swap and memory. In that case it is just not
> > acceptable to start killing processes.
>
> Cache is not included in my VM measurement. It's just
> pages currently allocated to processes.
Okay, what about Netscape's cache? What about named's cache? What
about xmms decompression buffers? Does your measurement include those,
or not? All are easily freeable on demand.
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