On Mon, 9 May 2005 08:06:04 +0100 (BST) tom potts madtom1999@yahoo.com wrote:
Just a comment on linux memory use vs windows. If I remember rightly the file system on linux tends to keep files in memory until it needs the space so the memory usage goes up so when it says your using 700meg of ram this may actually mean your only using 200 meg for the system but there are 500meg of closed files. Windows seems to scrabble every last bit back and still suffer.
Yes and window has a first in, last out memory allocation system for NT 4.0 and win 9X series I don't know about later versions.
Unix has a first in, first out so performance is more predictable.
This was a hack to make the MS applications using the MS libraries run faster on small memory machines.
Regards
Owen Synge