Thread: System Optimization?
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2007-02-09 , 19:08
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Originally Posted by freeman View Post
I have an N800 w/ custom built kernel and everything is loaded from a 8GB SDHC card. It appear that the system is a little slugish on response after coming out of sleeping(kinda like me). Also, after boot up, my top read.
Code:
Mem: 118272K used, 8076K free, 0K shrd, 2096K buff, 76564K cached
Load average: 0.10, 0.05, 0.03    (State: S=sleeping R=running, W=waiting)
less than 8MB free, and 70+MB on cache? Is this normal, or you guys have any recommendation on what should we do to optimize the unit. Things to turn off, or *.conf to edit.
Thanks.
If the N800's system behaves like a normal Linux system, those numbers are not uncommon at all. Linux has a rather intelligent memory manager; it wants all of your memory to be useful members of society and put in an honest day's job. If there are no applications demanding RAM, using it for cache is the next choice, just to keep it occupied.

But, as usual, smarter people might chime in now and expose my ignorance.