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
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Ram .. Where is it going ??
Last Sunday there was a post from Steve Flynn about 'unused memory':
As for seeing all of you memory in Use under Linux, this is perfectly
normal, and it a GOOD thing - Linux uses as much memory as it can to cache
