Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> This is normal. As long as there is free ram, it will be used as cache.
> This space should be reclaimed as soon as something else needs the RAM.

why is the swap used here: ?

CPU states:  0.5% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system,  0.0% interrupt, 99.5% idle
Memory: 221M Act, 113M Inact, 236K Wired, 9460K Exec, 288M File, 6480K Free
Swap: 499M Total, 51M Used, 449M Free

It should be faster to use RAM for memory than to waste it as cache und use swap as mem?!

dave

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