I have an SMP PIII system running Mandrake 8.1 with (was 512M ram) however while working on an image in the GIMP i was shocked to discovered my ram was at 99% and 7% swap. OK the image was 100M in size but what about the rest. After i have finished and have closed down GIMP etc not all my ram returns. Now i have added another 512 M of ram the system is at 16% in use ... but if i load a large image it goes well over the amount of it needs and after eg 87% however once i close the image and gimp, ram seems only to go down to around 61%. Is there a way to get all this now un-used ram back. On the Amiga there is a command called "avail flush" which can get back un-used ram, is there something on Linux to do this?? David
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