[Spambayes] memory consumption...

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Carel Fellinger wrote
> I take it that your new to linux? Otherwise ignore my rambling.
> Linux uses all its free memory for caching, but only trully free
> memory.  So before any swapping starts the cache will shrink to its
> bare minimum first.

That's what I'd expected. But it looked like this little laptop had
got confused, and wouldn't let go of the cached ram. a reboot later
and it's happy again, and tossing cached data away, rather than 
paging everything else out.

oh well. file under "one of those freaky things that computers sometimes
do". 

Anthony