Memory Leak Issues

[Matt Kettler]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 25/10/06, Matt Kettler <mkettler at evi-inc.com> wrote:
> 
>> For what it's worth, modern MS Windows does the same thing, but less
>> aggressively, because there's more overhead associated with reducing
>> the cache size.
> This is a first.... "Justifying" Linux kernel behaviour with the
> argument that Bill is doing the same... Jesus! What is the world
> coming to!? :-D

Well, I wasn't "justifying" it.

My point was more like: "Every vaguely modern desktop or server OS does this,
even Microsoft Windows, so you should already be familiar with this behavior."

ie: What hole have you been hiding in that you've not seen this before?

If I'd not seen it before, I'd be terrified at what I see in my Windows task
manager right now.. less than 40mb "available", but over 30% of my physical
memory is "System Cache".