Re: Cache uses a lot of memory.

["Jeffrey Cobb" <cdoc2000 mediaone net>]

Yes, everyone has been telling me that.  I think I get the picture now.

Thanx,
Jeff

-> Am Fre, 2001-12-07 um 04.57 schrieb Jeffrey Cobb:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was looking at my memory usage and noticed that the cache takes up 119
megs of RAM from my 256 total.
> >
> > Is this really necessary?  Also, what can I "turn off" that isn't really
necesary for a basic workstation/SAMBA config to save memory as well?  Is
there a good memory manager or similar utility available in Linux to handle
this?
>
> memory acces is very fast. disk acces in comparison is very slow.
>
> something like nanoseconds compared to milliseconds??? factor 1000 or
> so...
>
> greetings
> olaf
>