Re: Linux doesn't seem to manage memory very well

James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:

Not a question, just an observation.

A freqently wrong one as well.

I say that Linux doesn't seem to handle memory well because my laptop
had 8GB RAM (which, frankly, Windows seems to find perfectly adequate
for a similar workload). Under Linux the RAM would fill up and then swap
space would be used. Then the machine would become largely unresponsive
- e.g. taking minutes to switch between windows.
>
So I upgraded the RAM. It now has three times as much (i.e. 24GB)! But
even so, RAM has still steadily filled up until reaching the full 24GB.
What's more, it's now showing 4.8GB of swap space in use.

Linux swaps out lesser used pages anyway to make the backing memory
available for buffers or cache.

Those people writing memory management are really smart. Smarter than
you and me together. Don't assume them being stupid.

Greetings
Marc
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