Re: memory management and the status of

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 19:04:26 +0100 (BST)

> What is the status with memory management under linux? Right now, I have
> 80M of physical memory, where 78 of it is being used and my swap isn't
> even being touched. So what do you get? You get choppy mp3's while your

Good. Thats how life should be

> etc.,...It's very annoying....if swap were to be used, I wouldn't have
> this problem...it's pretty bad that I can boot into my Winnuts OS and

Doubtful indeed. Your choppy mp3 points to different problems. Free memory
is wasted memory.

Alan

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