[Spambayes] memory consumption...

[Matt Sergeant]

Anthony Baxter wrote:
>>>>Carel Fellinger wrote
>>>
>>I take it that your new to linux? Otherwise ignore my rambling.
>>Linux uses all its free memory for caching, but only trully free
>>memory.  So before any swapping starts the cache will shrink to its
>>bare minimum first.
> 
> 
> That's what I'd expected. But it looked like this little laptop had
> got confused, and wouldn't let go of the cached ram. a reboot later
> and it's happy again, and tossing cached data away, rather than 
> paging everything else out.

FWIW, this is very much dependant on Linux kernel version. Red Hat's 
stock kernels seem to perform much better than anyone elses doing this 
type of thing.

Matt.