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Disk cache is sometimes dropped/erased
I have a memory/cpu monitor running, and sometimes see the graph line for “cached memory” drop, for no apparent reason.
Earlier today Cache memory was at about 4.8GB but then dropped in two steps ( a ...
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How do I tell what type of CPU cache is in my laptop?
Is there an application for Ubuntu that could tell me details about CPU, CPU cache memory, memory hierarchy, cache architecture implemented in my system, cpu cache size, cpu cache, access cycle and ...
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Dump video data from RAM DISK to the HARD DISK?
This is the story:
Some online video streaming sites like www.putlocker.com won't allow Adobe Flash Player to cache the streaming videos on your Hard Disk, so the users can't watch them offline.
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How can I use up all RAM by cache?
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 with 4G RAM. I have changed SWAP to 10 and installed Preload. However, My system only use less than 1G RAM to cache and It remains more than 2G RAM standby.
How can I use up ...
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How do I use zRam?
I installed zRam as described on webupd8.org. I installed it from the terminal. Is that all I have to do or do I have to do some configuration or something? Does the zram-enabler do everything by ...
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How do I clean or disable the memory cache?
After the system starts, in a few minutes my memory cache fills up and it starts using the swap. Here's a screenshot of /proc/meminfo.
However, if I can disable this process / clean the cache once ...
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Drawbacks of using preload? Why isn't it included by default?
I would like to know what are the drawbacks of using preload? If there would be no downside, preload would be enabled by default, so I guess there are some.
Okay you need a bit more RAM, but most ...
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Does seeding torrents affect the harddisk RAM caching?
I've downloaded a lot of torrent files and while I'm seeding them, I've noticed that very often when I start the browser it's slow and the hard disk activity indicator is on. Usually when I start a ...
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Why is the cache in my memory always full?
I have 6GB RAM, i5 2.4GHZ Processor running Ubuntu 11.10. I partitioned my HD so that I have 8GB swap.
When streaming online or opening several tabs in Chromium I soon have 4GB Memory in the cache. ...
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Memory cache still load, after close programs
It's show on system indicator, I found solution in ubuntuforum to use command sudo echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
It's work, but why my ubuntu not handle by itself?
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Computer freezing on almost full RAM, possibly disk cache problem
The problem I think is somewhat similar to this thread.
It doesn't matter if I have swap enabled or disabled, whenever the real used RAM amount starts going close to maximum and there is almost no ...
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Can I use all my RAM for application data?
I have yet another question about "where is my Linux memory"
Question goes: can I use cache for application data?
On my laptop I have 1GB ram. Situation after some time of work: browser takes 400MB ...
