On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 15:51 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 10 February 2008 15:30:51 Tom Patton wrote:
But...if it still remained in memory when the time came for Beagle to index that new batch of email, that would be a good thing...
What you're talking about is the page cache, which is shared among programs. But that wouldn't show up as an increase in RSS for kmail
And for the "green crowd"
Don't do this, not on a technical mailing list.
Technically, refreshing 4 gig of empty ram (as well as saving constant disk re-reads) WOULD be a green issue, but it was not intended to start a war. Rather, it illuminates a minor advantage of LINUX vs Windows. My apologies to the list... Tom
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