Gustin Johnson wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> Oops :) > >> > >> I just wrote at another thread ... > >> > >> > >>> 2 Gigs are enough RAM, there is always RAM left and the swap is > never used, when I run top. > >>> > >>> > >> ... than I run top ... > >> > >> Mem: 1911196k total, 1816664k used, 94532k free, 31848k > buffers > >> Swap: 2273156k total, 136k used, 2273020k free, 1490872k cached > >> > >> ... the computer is running the hole day through, but since the last > >> startup there were only Iceweasel, Icedove and gcalctool running on > >> KDE3. When I run top, only Iceweasel and Icedove were running, while > >> Icedove only had one tab with the Google search engine opened. > >> > >> It's strange. Can such RAM usage be normal? I have to admit, it's > not my > >> default 64 Studio or default Suse, it's a broken 64 Studio Lenny I'm > >> running right now. > >> > Most of the RAM is not being used by active processes. Take the memory > used and subtract the cached memory to get an idea of how much memory is > being used. > > Linux will make use of unused RAM for caching purposes. The paging > mechanism is really quite complex and mostly beyond me at this point. > What is important is that memory used for cache will be freed for used > by your applications as needed. > > In your example: > 1816664 - 1490872 = 325792 > > So there is only 300 or so MB of RAM being used.
Thank you Gustin :) stupid people like me should use htop. People that use top and atop should have your knowledge ;). In the future I'm able to understand top and htop too :D. > > A second question > > > I've got 20/48/ MB RAM > > - 128 MB framebuffer > > = 1896 MB RAM > > > 1896 MB * 1024 = 1941504 KB > > > 1941504 KB > > - "1911196k total" > > = 30308 KB <-- Is this the RAM the kernel uses? > > I don't understand the question. Are you asking how much memory the > Kernel occupies or are asking something else? There are missing around 29 MB of RAM. Where do they go? I guessed that the kernel might be subtracted. Cheers, Ralf
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