On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote: > > > > Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem > > > and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've > > > got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal? > > > > well, it's normal for me :-) I've read that the VMM will allocate as > > much RAM as feasible and practical to disk caching. > > -- > > Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture... > > LOL, I didn't mean anything by it, I've heard that too and wondered what > the basis was :)
If I do a cat on /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 390709248 371380224 19329024 0 13205504 181313536 Swap: 1230839808 48295936 1182543872 MemTotal: 381552 kB MemFree: 18876 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 12896 kB Cached: 172232 kB SwapCached: 4832 kB Active: 147668 kB Inactive: 190916 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 381552 kB LowFree: 18876 kB SwapTotal: 1201992 kB SwapFree: 1154828 kB And the only thing beyond kde open is evolution. James
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