[lug] "Cache" under linux

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:54:22AM -0800, Eric Peers wrote:
>When I run top, I notice that I have very little free
>memory in my system, and yet the process memory usage
>count does not reflect this used memory.

Top should not say "free", it should say "wasted"...  A small free
memory pool is kept to satisfy allocations, and the rest of the memory
holds cached copies of data that has recently been read from or written
to disc, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread...

Sean
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