Re: Memory Mangement Problem in 5.1-RELEASE

From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:35:14 -0700
Ahmed Al-Hindawi wrote:
> It is simply swapping when it shouldn't.
> 
> Opening Mozilla, Opera, Netscape, DrJava, jEdit, Emacs, PrBoom, XBubbles,
> and Nautilus at the same time on a 233Mhz machine should fill up the memory
> (160Mb) but instead it has decided to use the swap disk for a measly 50Mb
> which I do have in RAM!!

Please google for the phrase "write through cache".

GG.

-- Terry
Received on Fri Jul 25 2003 - 21:36:18 UTC

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