somethin2cool (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > even though i'm not running anything. > > in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc > dependencies. > > in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally > minimal system i believe the later. > > however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that > much. > > what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram? > > atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the > whole point was for a fast system
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 504 497 7 0 28 211 -/+ buffers/cache: 256 247 Swap: 1023 134 889 That means: 504 mbytes of RAM are used, but this includes 211 mbytes that are used for file caching. The cache size will decrease when applications need the RAM. The second line shows you how much RAM is used without the cache. Also take a look at top or htop. regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]