[PLUG] Bloat

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Wednesday 01 October 2008 10:15:46 Aditya Godbole wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Shridhar Daithankar
> > No. Thing is the memory usage varies with amount of installed RAM, at
> > least in linux. If you have same installation on a 512MB RAM and 128 MB
> > RAM machine and start identical sets of program, the usage won't be
> > identical.
>
> Quite remarkable. How does this happen? Any pointers to technical details?

This is down to caching. I don't have details offhand but I will dig it up and 
post. But I have observed this very frequently.

-- 
 Shridhar