Re: Heavy load of graphics

Ray Olszewski
2004-10-07T05:48:27Z

At 10:07 AM 10/7/2004 +0800, Peter wrote:
>Want to free memory?
>
>$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 223708 220120 3588 0 28356 107936
>-/+ buffers/cache: 83828 139880
>Swap: 128480 3996 124484
>
>$ locate /usr/bin/f* or x* or g* ...
>
>
>$ free
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 223708 41364 182344 0 1520 28592
>-/+ buffers/cache: 11252 212456
>Swap: 128480 5056 123424

Peter -- This is a pretty strange consequence of running the "locate"
command. And I cannot replicate it here. For example:

ray@waverly:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 773892 742056 31836 0 87600 441912
-/+ buffers/cache: 212544 561348
Swap: 0 0 0
ray@waverly:~$ locate /usr/bin/f*
/usr/bin/factor
[about 40 more lines, deleted here]
ray@waverly:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 773892 742076 31816 0 87608 441924
-/+ buffers/cache: 212544 561348
Swap: 0 0 0

Any idea what's causing the change on your system? My understanding of
Linux says it shouldn't work the way you report seeing it, so I'm wondering
what I am missing.