Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:22:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu> To: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinions? Message-ID: <Pine.3.91.960717161603.8242A-100000@fog.cs.odu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199607171933.OAA22819@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Wed, 17 Jul 1996, John Dyson wrote: > Or they could be keeping program images, disk cache and everything > that is accessed around. Some people have gotten upset about the small amount > of "free" memory on FreeBSD, until they realize that it is more > efficient to cache as much as you can :-). Some of our "cache" memory > becomes "active", but is quickly made available for other uses as needed. Then why only take 1/3 of your free available RAM to do it? I am looking at my memory usage under freebsd right now, and all but 600k is claimed by the cache, and active programs. I don't give M$ that much credit. They make some nice stuff, but it's expensive and usually suffers from at least one major design flaw. And everyone I know who uses NT says it's a bloated pig. :) Jamie I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.
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