<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Funny. today I saw it too, and wondered the same<br><br>Valery<br><br>--- On <b>Sun, 9/26/10, Lior Kaplan <i><kaplanlior@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lior Kaplan <kaplanlior@gmail.com><br>Subject: a machine without cache/buffers ?<br>To: "linux-il." <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il><br>Date: Sunday, September 26, 2010, 7:43 PM<br><br><div id="yiv950489197"><div dir="ltr">I got an output for the free command from a friend with the comment this is weired, as the machine<br>doesn't use any cache or buffers.<br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><br>total used free shared buffers cached</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Mem: 524288 419624 104664 0 0 0</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">-/+ buffers/cache: 419624 104664</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Swap: 0 0 0</span><br><br>I too didn't see any Linux machine in this situation. Any idea?<br><br>I know cleaning the buffers with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches but no disabling them at all.<br>
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"></span><br>Kaplan<br></div>
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