20 Oct
2005
20 Oct
'05
23:28
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:33:39AM -0700, Randall R Schulz took 34 lines to write:
Charlie,
On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:50, Charlie Smith wrote:
Why does top continue to show that memory into swap space after process that caused stats to go into swap space stops?
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Please don't get bothered about high memory utilization. It's Linux's way of doing things and it's smart. Keeping memory free for no reason other than to keep it free is nothing more than wasting it.
Indeed. It's smart because the time and effort involved in initializing memory is non-trivial. Kurt -- Individualists unite!