[luau] memory and writes to disk - linux behavior question

[Vince Hoang]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:28:43AM -1000, Jeff Wong wrote:
> This is normal. As far as linux is concerned, free memory is
> wasted memory. If there is alot of unused memory linux will
> automatically grab it for disk/file buffering and will keep it
> until some other process requests a memory allocation. If your
> using top, the amount of memory being used for this buffering
> is reported at the end of the 3rd line. While not exactly 'free
> memory' the delay it takes to deallocate from the buffer pool
> isn't very long and its started before the small pool of actual
> free memory is exhausted.

Ah. I had thought that only applied to swap.

-Vince