[mohaa] curious behavior

[Charles "BedMan" Bedford]

True wokka,

My point was unclear.  I was trying to say that available ram == free +
inactive.

Unixes in general make better use of ram (and in more documentable ways)
than your typical windows box.  And - if you're really currious, you can
always go to the source code in the kernel :-o

Ya - it's been a while wokka :-)  I've been busy with QuakeCon server
configs :-)

	-- Charles

-----Original Message-----
From: charles 'wokka' goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:05 PM
To: mohaa at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [mohaa] curious behavior


Bedman, long time no talk, but you contradicted yourself on free ram :)

In your example, you have 2 megs of free ram, and 320 inactive... this is
exactly the point i was making, it uses all available ram, and holds a
majority of it in inactive state, which it will give up to processes if they
need it

and your points on swap are correct, which is a given in most os's ;^)

wokka

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles "BedMan" Bedford" <bedman at quakecon.org>
To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:19 PM
Subject: RE: [mohaa] curious behavior


> If you will note the following line:
> Mem: 35M Active, 319M Inact, 58M Wired, 21M Cache, 54M Buf, 2840K Free
> Swap: 881M Total, 8K Used, 881M Free

> -----Original Message-----
> From: charles 'wokka' goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]

> linux will always use up all of the ram according to ps and top
> however, it will nicely give up ram to processes that need it, until it
runs
> out of course...
>
> its hard to gauge ram usage in linux...
> but you should be fine with 2 gigs with what you have running
>
> wokka