[ILUG] Where is all the memory gone ?

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Thu Nov 21 10:04:03 GMT 2002


Quoting Niall O Broin (niall at linux.ie):

> So what has gobbled the memory ?

It's being productively used for cache buffers -- as long as it's not
needed for anything else.  This is A Good Thing.  It means that your 
RAM isn't going to waste, and disk access times are optimised.  Your
system is healthy and behaving normally.  Relax.  ;->

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