buffers don't shrink

Subject: buffers don't shrink
From: Tom Vier (thomassr@erols.com)
Date: Sat Dec 30 2000 - 14:47:11 PST

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i have a PWS 500a miata, and i've noticed that after about a week of uptime,
i have almost 400megs (out of 512) of ram used up by buffers, forcing other
pages out to swap. what exactly is the buffer space used for? i assume
"cache" is FS cache. has anyone else seen this behavior?

here's the output of vmstat:
   procs memory swap io system cpu
 r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id
 0 0 0 1000 26952 382624 58056 0 0 1 1 3 6 4 2 3

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