Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933246AbaAaS0J (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:26:09 -0500 Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:37739 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932836AbaAaS0F (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:26:05 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: xQXxeu5KPs0RJ6Kschp01CrWBzPUDrGtkHtfmf+TiV7x 1391192757 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:25:51 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: That greedy Linux VM cache Message-ID: <20140131182551.GA23916@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint1: 4096R/39CB4807 C467 A717 507B BAFE D3C1 6092 0BD9 E811 39CB 4807 X-GPG-Fingerprint2: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Igor Podlesny wrote: > Probably every Linux newcomer's going to have concerns regarding > low free memory and hear an explanation from Linux old fellows that's > actually there's plenty of -- it's just cached, but when it's needed > for applications it's gonna be used -- on demand. I also thought so Yeah right, we wish it would... Anyway, maybe this helps? http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/112554/focus=81834 -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/