Comment 377 for bug 595047
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(Get the code!)
(In reply to comment #341)
> It has been mentioned time and again that none of the kernerl devs have
> gotten
> a concise description of the problem and hence none of them seems to have any
> nswers. Well, does anybody know why my caches show 700MB in a 2GB machine and
> why can't I get rid of any of it? I don't think the question can get any more
> precise.This is the heart of the problem folks.
I don't understand why you'd assume that cache is a problem. The kernel uses available RAM as cache as it's the most productive use for it. To assume that this is buggy behavior is extremely misled logic.