I'm sure it only uses it for caching purposes. here's the output from top ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mem: 255632K total, 245132K used, 10500K free, 32592K buffers Swap: 248972K total, 4K used, 248968K free, 95316K cached
As you can see, i have processes that uses 245132K - 32592K buffers - 95316K cached ~ 120K ? JonB
