I wouldn't worry about the cache and buffer sizes. I think that the
kernel will use as much memory as is available (with a little slack)
for those. AFAIK, when your processes need more memory, the kernel
will reduce the amount of memory allocated to the buffers/cache to
make room for the user processes.
Patrick
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Andy Waddell wrote:
> have to admit that I'm not sure what all these numbers really mean:
>
> total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> Mem: 31850496 20320256 11530240 7856128 8388608 6402048
> Swap: 0 0 0
> MemTotal: 31104 kB
> MemFree: 11260 kB
> MemShared: 7672 kB
> Buffers: 8192 kB
> Cached: 6252 kB
> SwapTotal: 0 kB
> SwapFree: 0 kB
> BASH: 10 >
>
> But, it looks like there are rather largish allocations for "Buffers" and
> "Cached" which may or may not need to be so high since the performance of a
> RAM-based disk should be much better than a real hard drive. Also, I
> probably don't need as much buffering as you might see as the default for a
> workstation or server, since this is a little embedded system where
> bandwidth is low and performance requirements are modest. Could anyone
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