From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:41:27 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [RFC] Limit the size of the pagecache In-Reply-To: <20070125093259.74f76144.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Message-ID: References: <20070124121318.6874f003.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20070124141510.7775829c.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20070125093259.74f76144.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: aubreylee@gmail.com, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org, Michael.Hennerich@analog.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:15:10 +0900 > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > And...some customers want to keep memory Free as much as possible. > > 99% memory usage makes insecure them ;) > > > If there is a way that the "free" command can show "never used" memory, > they will not complain ;). > > But I can't think of the way to show that. > == > [kamezawa@aworks src]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 741604 724628 16976 0 62700 564600 > -/+ buffers/cache: 97328 644276 > Swap: 1052216 2532 1049684 > == Could we call the free memory "unused memory" and not talk about free memory at all? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org