27 Oct
2005
27 Oct
'05
5:50 p.m.
On 10/21/05, Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
Steve Bergman wrote:
Also, current kernels are aggressive at freeing up application memory that is rarely used by swapping it out to make more room for caching disk data. IMO, it's a win.
Yep, this is a great "feature," especially on something like a busy web server that's serving up lots of static content.
Ahh ya, that seems to be the culprit. I've been on a lot of graphic intensive sites, so Firefox has been flushing out the cache by using a few hundred megs of ram.
Thanks for the info, I should stop going on dating sites to keep up with the latest changes haha