From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Heavy load of graphics Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:48:27 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20041006224402.02071d28@celine> References: <20041007020702.020204B4@heisspf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041007020702.020204B4@heisspf> References: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: newbie 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" 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.linux-learn.org/faqs