From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft) Subject: Re: Memory leak with 100ns simms? Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1993 01:19:28 GMT
I think he (like so many people) is not realizing that the
"used" column = "really-used" + "buffers", and that the buffer
space will mostly be freed as processes need it.
If it were up to me, I would have the free column represent
"unused" + "buffers that can be reclaimed" (is there a fixed minimum
which will always be allocated for buffers?) and stop all this
confusion once and for all (although it is interesting to watch
that free number once in a while to see if it ever really gets
to 0).