reis3k adjusted his/her AFDB on Sunday 21 Jun 2009 22:06 to write:
>
>>
>> It means that 1.1 GB of your disk is cached to memory and will be
>> served faster
>
> this answers first make a little confused, because I thought that 1.1
> Gb data served in my disk and having a potential to use later on is
> cached.
>
>> linux keeps buffers and caches of previously used apps just in case they
>> are needed again and so greatly increases loading and access speed and
>> reduces disk access.
>
> Then I can conclude that for the first time boot of os, the cached size
> will be zero.
>
> Thanks both of u,but I think you make some math to calculate how much
> size in mb a apps consumes in the memory after you execute *ps -aux *
> (percentages of usage X memory size) instead of directly see the result
> on the console 
>
>
If you use top ( or htop if installed ) from a commandline you will see
different results for mem, vmem and shmem now look at the difference in
those :-)
That will really bake your noodle, I will leave that one as an exercise for
your homework.
;-)
Take care, but most of all enjoy.
--
Mark
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