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Re: VPS are EATING RAM!! WHY? [message #35393 is a reply to message #35381]

Mon, 23 March 2009 11:38

kir
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Note the «buffers» and «cached» columns in 'free' output. Linux is actually using free memory for buffers and caches. Then more memory is needed it will shrink those buffers and caches. It is just way more efficient to use the memory for caches than to do nothing.

Kir Kolyshkin

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