From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Latency data - 2.6.14-rc3-rt13
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:25:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0510111825k75fb25a6wfd7867d0dd823c1a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1129080062.7094.7.camel@mindpipe>
On 10/11/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Should free memory drop like that over time?
>
> Yes this is perfectly normal. When a system first boots all the memory
> your apps aren't using is initially free. As applications access more
> data over time then it will be cached in memory until free memory drops
> to near zero.
>
> "Free memory" is actually wasted memory - it's better to use all
> available RAM for caching.
>
> Lee
OK, non-intuitive for a guitar player, but good to know it's normal. Thanks!
In that case I'll just wait for an xrun and hope I catch something in
dmesg. We'll just have to wait and see.
Cheers,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-12 1:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 20:16 Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 20:49 ` Daniel Walker
2005-10-10 21:12 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 21:28 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 21:44 ` Daniel Walker
2005-10-10 22:09 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 22:28 ` Daniel Walker
2005-10-10 23:33 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-10 23:49 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-11 3:45 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-11 6:46 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-11 8:56 ` Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
2005-10-11 11:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-11 22:45 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-12 0:02 ` Lee Revell
2005-10-12 1:09 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-12 1:21 ` Lee Revell
2005-10-12 1:25 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2005-10-12 6:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-12 16:18 ` Lee Revell
2005-10-12 17:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-10-11 3:56 ` Matan Peled
2005-10-11 4:45 ` Mark Knecht
2005-10-11 6:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-11 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-10-10 21:39 ` Daniel Walker
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