From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: lgb@lgb.hu, Ashley <ashleyz@alchip.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel cached memory
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:50:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200507231250.53562.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122055139.877.9.camel@mindpipe>
Am Freitag, 22. Juli 2005 19:58 schrieb Lee Revell:
> On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 15:25 +0200, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > Anyway, want to have 'free memory' is a thing like having dozens of cars
> > in your garage which don't want to be used ...
> >
>
> Really? I thought it was good to leave some memory free to speed up
> application startup, so we don't have to evict a bunch of pages first.
Eviction is cheap when the pages are clean.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-23 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-22 9:46 Ashley
2005-07-22 11:31 ` Diego Calleja
2005-07-22 12:57 ` Erik Mouw
2005-07-22 21:43 ` John Pearson
2005-07-23 12:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-07-22 13:25 ` Gábor Lénárt
2005-07-22 17:58 ` Lee Revell
2005-07-23 10:50 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2005-07-25 16:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-25 17:03 ` Diego Calleja
2005-07-25 17:07 ` Paolo Ornati
2005-07-25 18:02 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-01 10:38 ` Gábor Lénárt
2005-08-01 21:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-07-26 0:35 Chuck Ebbert
[not found] <4t5s8-68A-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <4tdIU-479-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-07-26 5:03 ` Robert Hancock
2005-07-26 15:00 ` Bill Davidsen
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