I have a dockstar and a goflex home both running davy's linux 3.3.2 kernel. I moved my USB stick install to the HD on the Goflex, then I used the stick to boot up the dockstar. This seems to work pretty well.
My question is why does the dockstar use so much more buffers? See below from #top :
Dockstar:
top - 11:13:31 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.03
Tasks: 39 total, 1 running, 38 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 125036k total, 91024k used, 34012k free, 69824k buffers
Swap: 952472k total, 0k used, 952472k free, 11312k cached
Goflex:
top - 11:17:26 up 45 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
Tasks: 40 total, 1 running, 39 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 125036k total, 20336k used, 104700k free, 1000k buffers
Swap: 538172k total, 0k used, 538172k free, 10400k cached
One has 1000k buffers the other has 69824k buffers. Is there a way to make this more reasonable? Which is correct? or more correct?