About once a week I hear some poor newbie scream in terror as he discovers that his box is just seconds away from a gruesome death with barely a few megabytes of memory left. How could this have happened, it was fine when I booted it this morning, why does a Linux box need 2GB of memory just to run Apache, more bloated than Vista, etc, etc. <\/p>\n
Then you explain about the wonders of disk caching, and invariably the first question is always “How do I disable it?”<\/p>\n
All in all, it’s a lot of repetition. <\/p>\n
To avoid this, I registered LinuxAteMyRam.com<\/a> which features a big flashing “Don’t Panic” sign and answers the most frequent questions as reassuringly as possible. <\/p>\n The goal is to allow people to appreciate Linux’s disk cache for the brilliant, unobtrusive and effective optimization it is, so it skips over some details like the swappiness setting. <\/p>\n If you have thoughts or suggestions, do comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" About once a week I hear some poor newbie scream in terror as he discovers that his box is just seconds away from a gruesome death with barely a few megabytes of memory left. How could this have happened, it was fine when I booted it this morning, why does a Linux box need 2GB … Continue reading ““Linux ate my ram!””<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basic-linux","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}