[nylug-talk] LOWMEM vs. HIGHMEM performance advantage?

[Ajai Khattri]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, jh wrote:

> Here's the current readout from free -m:
> 
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          2026       1975         50          0          0       1106
> -/+ buffers/cache:        869       1156
> Swap:         3812          0       3812
> 
> So, swap isn't being touched at all. Plenty of free physical RAM, too.

What sort of application is it? Does it use files? Do they increase in 
number or size over time? Does it use a database? Any sort of application 
caching going on?

Without knowing some detail about the app itself its hard to do any 
theorizing.


-- 
Aj.