Memory staying in cached status -- Possible Memory Leak

[Scott van Looy]

Today Dave Mitchell did spake thusly:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:05:06AM +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Somebody told me yesterday that the "free" column should be kept as close
>> to 0 as possible by the linux kernel. Is this true? Coz mine ain't...
>
> On reboot, [Mem: free] and [-/+ buffers/cache: free] will both be large.
> As apps claim memory, both will fall. As apps access files and more data
> becomes cached, [Mem: free] falls. If the apps don't do much disk I/O,
> then it wont reach near zero. If and when it reaches near zero, it will
> remain that way until reboot.

That was my understanding too. That's the last time I talk to an ubuntu 
engineer...giggle

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