From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3FCEEC38.4010608@dgt-lab.com.pl> Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:11:36 +0100 From: Wojciech Kromer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Linuxppc-Embedded (E-mail)" Subject: cached memory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: how to change strategy of using cached memory? this is a shot from top program on my board ========================================== 7:31pm up 18:31, 2 users, load average: 2.46, 1.89, 1.17 28 processes: 25 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.1% user, 99.8% system, 0.0% nice, 0.0% idle Mem: 127888K av, 124880K used, 3008K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff Swap: 0K av, 0K used, 0K free 58936K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 768 root 14 0 10740 500 388 R 96.7 0.3 3:17 dd 522 root 9 0 1264 1264 932 D 1.1 0.9 0:09 ftp ========================================== in some cases there are "out of memory" errors in my applications, esspecialy when system has high load, free memory slowy goes down there are no new allocs in applications, but cache keeps growing -- * * * * * * * * * * * * * per pedes ad astra! * * * * * * * * * * * * * mailto:krom@dgt-lab.com.pl ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/