Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 02:37:37AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > 2.2.17 is recommended to fix a set of root-level exploits (local, > IIRC) in the 2.2.9 (?) - 2.2.16 series. Prior to 2.2.9, there were, > IIRC, some memory issues or other random bugs. I'm running 2.2.17 at > home and 2.2.

Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Waldner
>> >>The system is an up-to-date potato >> >>Linux cruncher 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686 unknown >> > >> >Its not up-to-date if its not running the latest kernel in the range >> >2.2.17 at the moment :) >> >2.2.17 is recommended to fix a set of root-level exploits (local, >IIRC) in th

Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread kmself
on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:28:59AM +0200, Robert Waldner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:44:21 +1300, "C. Falconer" writes: <...> > >At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: > >>The system is an up-to-date potato > >>Linux cruncher 2.2.15 #1 Thu Jun 1 10:47:16 EST 2000 i686 unk

Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread Robert Waldner
On Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:44:21 +1300, "C. Falconer" writes: >At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: >>As long as I had 128 megs there were ~ 3 megs free with some 60 megs >>used for buffers. Now I have 320 megs ram, but only about 150 are used >>for buffers, 100 are free. > >Thats a helluva lot of r

Re: caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-26 Thread C. Falconer
At 06:39 AM 10/25/00 +0200, you wrote: As long as I had 128 megs there were ~ 3 megs free with some 60 megs used for buffers. Now I have 320 megs ram, but only about 150 are used for buffers, 100 are free. totalusedfree shared buffers cached Mem:321784 224244 9

caching/buffering/ram usage (linux-, not debian-specific)

2000-10-24 Thread Robert Waldner
Hi! I´m trying to get my workstation running as fast as possible, and since I´ve got hold of some extra ram ... Please correct me if I´m wrong: Linux uses most of the free ram for caching (read+write), up to a certain percentage which is kept free for general purposes. afaik this is one of t