On Mon 17 Mar 2003 at 21:42:51, Matt Pittard said: > Might it be the fact that almost 80% of my memory is being used up? I > have 256M of DDR Ram and I don't know what needs to run in the > background to use up 80% of the RAM--and it is usually up near 95%. I'm > wondering if I installed something along the way that I most likely > shouldn't have...or something.
Probably not. What you're seeing isn't memory being eaten up by applications, but the kernel caching parts of the hard drive into memory for faster access. This is a very good thing. If you think that a process *is* hogging a lot of memory, run ps aux | less and look down the "%MEM" column to see if there's anything that seems to be out of the ordinary. -- Soren Harward [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
