[thechat] Now what! (Microsoft investigating alleged flaw in IE browser)

[Daniel J. Cody]

Hey Lachlan-

linux is supposed to suck up most of the free physical memory you have 
on your computer. its what gives it it's minty fresh memory managment 
and contributes to its sexy uptimes :)

http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/buffer-cache.html

:)

Lachlan Cannon wrote:


> Cause when they try to set up linux for the lan to connect
> to the net, just running it hogs 48 mb out of 64 mb of ram,
> and with whatever their gui is called again is running it
> sucks up all 64 mb with no programs running, and it's
> extremely hard to set up, even when your father has years
> of experience in unix based qnx, and it takes multiple
> attempts just to get the damn thing installed?