On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 08:21:28AM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm perplexed on the memory status. I've 196M of memory which is > recognized. However, why is most of it used when I bring up the > system? Surely, X and gnome do not take that much memory?
This question is asked every day. Linux uses memory for apps, shared memory, etc. Whatever is left gets used as disk cache to speed up disk access - this is a good thing. Unused memory is wasted memory, right? If you run more apps, memory is taken away from disk cache and given to your new apps. When they exit, the freed memory will migrate back into disk cache as it should. -- Jan Carlson janc at kubwa dot com _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
