So, taking the numbers from Carlos Robinson's Friday post --
SWAP 1,052,216K TOTAL 224,240K USED 827,976K FREE 404,580K CACHED
Maybe CACHED is the 224,240K USED plus 404,580K - 224,240K = 180,340K previously used; i. e., modules that were earlier called but are no longer running. If you invoke one of those modules again, it gets copied from CACHED to USED instead of from the medium to USED. The page caches are used to indicate which pages have been copied to backing store so that they do not need to be saved if they are evicted. But, the
On Monday 01 August 2005 5:40 pm, Greg Wallace wrote: page cache is actually in RAM memory. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9