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From: Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>
To: newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Heavy load of graphics
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:48:27 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20041006224402.02071d28@celine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041007020702.020204B4@heisspf>

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.



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-07  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-05  5:01 Heavy load of graphics Ankit Jain
2004-10-05  5:45 ` Jeff Woods
2004-10-05  6:34 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-05  9:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-05 10:04 ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-06  6:35   ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-06 21:02     ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-07 12:48       ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-07 22:00         ` Jim Nelson
2004-10-07 22:04         ` chuck gelm
2004-10-08  5:27           ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-08 14:37             ` Ray Olszewski
2004-10-05 12:26 ` chuck gelm
2004-10-05 16:25 ` Terrence Martin
2004-10-06  4:55   ` Ankit Jain
2004-10-07  1:50     ` chuck gelm
2004-10-07  2:07 ` Peter
2004-10-07  5:48   ` Ray Olszewski [this message]
2004-10-07  6:25     ` Owen Ford
2004-10-07 12:14   ` Ankit Jain

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