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- From: harry@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Kuo-Chen Chang)
- Subject: memory usage
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- Organization: University of Minnesota
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 04:51:12 GMT
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- Could someone tell me how Linux uses memory?
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- I have 20MB RAM on board, with 8MB swap partition on /dev/hdb5. I used
- free to show much memory available and got this:
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- total used cache free shared
- memory: 19600 6468 12708 424 5328
- swap0: 8576 0 8576 0
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- I don't understand why system uses up all system and what is cache.
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- I didn't pay too much attention to memory usage until recently I got
- kicked out of program with error message "Out of memory".
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- Thanks! --Harry
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- BTW, when I first login, there are about 6MB free memory and then drops
- rapidly down to less than 1 MB free.
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