Hi, I'm a litlle worry about the memory (RAM) used by my machine.
I'm using slink ( recompiled kernel 2.0.36) and recently I realized that
I have my memory full very frecuently, even when running only a few
programs. Actually, the buffer and the cache use a lot of memory.
I have 256 Mb, and a typical (not the most terrible) output of 'cat
/proc/meminfo ' looks like :
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 263127040 221241344 41885696 47808512 95961088 79933440
Swap: 133885952 286720 133599232
MemTotal: 256960 kB
MemFree: 40904 kB
MemShared: 46688 kB
Buffers: 93712 kB
Cached: 78060 kB
SwapTotal: 130748 kB
SwapFree: 130468 kB
Sometimes, there are a release of memory (e.g. when I run a heavy
process) , but the cache an buffer slowly increase
their memory usage.
Is it normal, or I have a serious problem? Maybe a not well tuned
kernel? Is there a way to release the memory used by the buffer and/or
cache?
thanks
carlosb
