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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: two quick questions...
- Message-ID: <marcf.726020557@yorku.ca>
- Sender: news@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca (USENET News System)
- Organization: York University
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:22:37 GMT
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- Hi...
-
- 1 - has anyone gotten talk to work?
-
- 2 - well, this one is a little longer...
-
- I'm running on a 386-33 with 8meg of memory. If I
- do a 'free', it tells me I have something like 5Meg cache in
- memory and 112k(?) in free memory...and it is dipping into swap
- space because of lack of free memory.
-
- The questions are...what is the cache for? (disk caching?) Why
- so much? Can I reduce it so that swap space isn't used so much?
-
- Thanks..
-
- Marc
-