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Subject: Re: checkpoint process use too much memory
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> On Apr 20, 2020, at 11:52 AM, jian xu <jamesxu@outlook.com> wrote:
>=20
> the free memory size was very low

Remember that the OS will fill memory with file cache until something =
else needs it.=