also note in the top list above around 170MB is eaten by disk buffers. this is memory that's used as disk cache, and is not being eaten by applications.
overall, you WANT the system to eat all your memory!!! what's the point of having the memory if you don't use it? linux will always eat all the memory that\s unused by processes, to use as disk cache. the cache/buffers will go down as the number of applications you are running goes up. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
