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On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 10:53:29AM +1000, George Michaelson wrote:

[snip[

> But even with this, I find that on my 1GB IBM X31, a cvs followed by a bu=
ild.sh
> forces available memory for apps down below 30Mb.

How are you defining "available memory for apps"? Are you having=20
applications crash due to lack of memory?

NetBSD, especially 2.0, is very agressive about caching lots of=20
recently-used data. To the point that you can tune it so that any one user=
=20
of memory can gobble all of it up. Thus you can easily have all of the=20
system RAM working for you.

As a consequence, a heavily-used system will end up with very little=20
memory just lying around doing nothing. I've seen busy half Gig and 1 GB=20
systems happily running with 1000K "Free".

Take care,

Bill

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