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From: Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well
Date: Wed, 1 May 2024 16:48:22 +0200
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On 01.05.2024 um 11:32 Uhr James Harris wrote:

> I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop 
> had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate 
> for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then
> swap space would be used. Then the machine would become largely
> unresponsive 

Check the swapiness settings.

> - e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.
> 
> So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)!
> But even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full
> 24GB.

It uses the RAM as a disk cache - for caching files from the disk and
for caching files to be written when the disk is in use.


-- 
kind regards
Marco

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