[H-GEN] Memory useage

[Robert Brockway]

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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Andrew Meaden wrote:

> 600MB free out of 1256MB ... but I suspect we don't make it work for
> it's money very hard.

This suggests either

1) It is a _very_ lightly loaded box - ie, it can't even be bothered
using more ram as cache.

or

2) A really big app just exited.  After an application closes its memory
is freed and may later be used by another app or cache, etc.  For a period
of time the free memory will appear significantly larger than normal.  If
there is no great call for the memory it may stay free for sometime.

Cheers,
	-Rob

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