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Subject: Re: More RAM for buffers?
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> Mem: 482M Active, 1044M Inact, 363M Wired, 3792K Cache, 214M Buf, 4023M Free
> Swap: 8192M Total, 8192M Free
>
> I can understand that on the other machine maybe inactive memory is more
> beneficial than cache or buffers, but this system is just sitting there
> with 4GB free (and the exact same amount of buffer memory as on the other,
> which seems a little too coincidental).
> -- 
just more files was not read already :)