Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] Memory issue
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Ulrich Windl
Mar 27, 2021, 7:09:57 PM3/27/21
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On 3/15/21 10:15 PM, thefift...@nym.hush.com wrote:
> It might be a confusion on my part, I'm open for that possibility. The
> stats when using "free -h" command shows:
> Mem: total 3.7G, used 301M, free 48M, shared 6.5M, buff/cache 3.4G,
> available 108M
> Swap: total 15G, used 865M, free 14G
>
> Since [dom0] Task Manager show my memory capacity at 96% used (in this
> moment of writing) it do worry me. I don't know what will happen if it
> reaches 100% and I do not wish to find out. And I wonder why it need to
> use so much buff/cache.
I'm no expert in Linux memory management, but when you have lots of
buffers/cache and little of that is available, my guess is that those
buffers are dirty and need to be written do disk.
> Is there some way to clear up the buffer/cache in dom0 (beside
> restarting the computer)?
> It might be a confusion on my part, I'm open for that possibility. The
> stats when using "free -h" command shows:
> Mem: total 3.7G, used 301M, free 48M, shared 6.5M, buff/cache 3.4G,
> available 108M
> Swap: total 15G, used 865M, free 14G
>
> Since [dom0] Task Manager show my memory capacity at 96% used (in this
> moment of writing) it do worry me. I don't know what will happen if it
> reaches 100% and I do not wish to find out. And I wonder why it need to
> use so much buff/cache.
I'm no expert in Linux memory management, but when you have lots of
buffers/cache and little of that is available, my guess is that those
buffers are dirty and need to be written do disk.
> Is there some way to clear up the buffer/cache in dom0 (beside
> restarting the computer)?
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