Re: ramfs memory usage

From: Goetz Bock <bock.a.t.blacknet.de>
Date: Mon Jul 02 2001 - 18:13:47 EDT

On Mon, Jul 02 '01 at 15:42, Will Stephenson wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but does memory consumed by ramfs filesystems count as
> cached memory (when listed in /proc/meminfo)?
All I know is that ramfs shares it's pages with the buffers "cache"
(but I just tried it, and when copying files from JFFS2 to ramfs, used
 and cached increase, free gets lower and buffers does not change at all
 ...)

    Goetz.

Received on Mon Jul 2 15:08:57 2001

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