Well unless I miss my guess, it looks like the natural Linux memory allocation, usually Linux as well as any other unix will allocate almost all its memory for things, whether its used and shared, buffer, or cache. If you open a terminal and type xosview this little app will show you what is going on in memory a little more in detail as far as colours go, it separates the different colours out to illustrate what it is doing, hope htis helps. Vic On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: > > I am running Mandrake 7.1 and KDE and being a newbie am just starting to look > at top. I know that both x and KDE are memory hogs, but I need them for now as > I learn my way around. Even so, I cannot believe that with nothing on but > these two and a kconsole, I am using up 73 MB of ram! > > I still do not know enough to understand all the processes that are running. > Could someone look at this top printout and suggest to me what seems to be > taking up so much memory? > > Thanks. > ....................................................... > 9:30am up 8:55, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.34, 0.55 > 65 processes: 63 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped > CPU states: 1.9% user, 1.9% system, 0.0% nice, 96.0% idle > Mem: 81500K av, 73036K used, 8464K free, 0K shrd, 2016K buff > Swap: 209624K av, 2116K used, 207508K free 28376K cached > > PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND > 683 root 19 0 10344 10M 1516 R 0 1.9 12.6 165:43 X > 20753 jeff 10 0 888 888 692 R 0 1.1 1.0 0:01 top > 20738 jeff 5 0 3640 3640 2796 S 0 0.5 4.4 0:00 gnome-termin > 1 root 0 0 472 472 412 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:01 init > 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd > 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 kupdate > 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod > 5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd > 6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd > 282 bin 0 0 292 284 220 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 portmap > 332 root 0 0 512 512 392 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:03 syslogd > 340 root 0 0 732 732 312 S 0 0.0 0.8 0:00 klogd > 353 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > 356 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > 357 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > 358 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > 359 nobody 0 0 448 428 344 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 identd > > -- > Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Registered Linux User 348854 > > > ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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