Lite Tweaks - Suggestions welcomed

[LL-user]

New feature, 'Clear memory' frees up system memory. Will prove useful for older machines.

Hey Jerry,


Am a bit confused regarding this tweak.


Would you please be so kind and give some background information?


I've learned that the system is managing and utilizing the memory as efficiently as possible. And it's not a bad sign that the physical memory is utilized as much as possible to increase access speed (referring to the difference between used and active memory -> vmstat -s). The only way that makes sense to influence the memory usage as a user and avoid undesired swappping is basically to close applications and stop unnecessary services and use a lightweight (desktop) system itself, to reduce the load on the system by being mindful of how many applications are run in parallel.


Here two links reflecting what I knew so far:
http://serverfault.com/questions/597115/...s-in-linux
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/...nux-system


Open to learn something new though...