On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, mao jud wrote: > i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem, > but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that. > there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ... > > is this normal or can someone pls help and explain things to me ? >
Linux is using memory for disk buffers and other sorts of caching. Once the system has been up for a while it will probably use quite a bit of memory all the time; there's no point in looking at the total figures really. Memory will be freed up as needed, since applications have priority. Havoc