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- From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
- Subject: Re: two quick questions...
- References: <marcf.726020557@yorku.ca>
- Organization: camaro
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:35:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.233554.19664@camaro.uucp>
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- In article <marcf.726020557@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >Hi...
- >
- > 1 - has anyone gotten talk to work?
-
- Nope, I keep getting 'target machine does not recognize us', if you get
- it working, do post your findings
-
- >
- > 2 - well, this one is a little longer...
- >
- > I'm running on a 386-33 with 8meg of memory. If I
- >do a 'free', it tells me I have something like 5Meg cache in
- >memory and 112k(?) in free memory...and it is dipping into swap
- >space because of lack of free memory.
- >
- > The questions are...what is the cache for? (disk caching?) Why
- >so much? Can I reduce it so that swap space isn't used so much?
-
- Cache is dynamically allocated as needed. I already asked Linux about
- that one too.
-
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