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To: Raul Zighelboim <mango@staff.communique.net>
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Subject: Re: There must be something really wrong with 2.2.2-release... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jul 1997 09:35:18 CDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 09 Jul 1997 11:23:11 -0700
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>BTW- I just checked one t=of the low-profile systems.
>	running inetd/sendmail and one telnetd session (+ the kernel)
>and I had some 16Megs of cache used.
>	I killed inetd/sendmail, so only the kernel was sunning (and my
>telnetd) and swapinfo still reported 30% of 48Megs cache in use...

   "cache" memory is memory that is being used to cache files and will not be
affected by killing off processes.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project