Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Marco Moock 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 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 01 May 2024 16:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7f658765a62e90496000aa14ff6a46e0"; logging-data="3312710"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hzSc0OGK+1qg2FpVSZJnR" Cancel-Lock: sha1:dcCGzsf951kWilHRcUQ09AW2low= Bytes: 1686 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 Send spam to 1714555938muell@cartoonies.org