quite a bit of it seems to be in buffers
$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257928 191744 66184 35584
122628
38364
-/+ buffers/cache: 30752 227176
Swap: 530104 0 530104
and top sorted according to memory usage:
(IS this normal?)
12:51:09 up 13 days, 5:06, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.02, 0.00
33 processes: 32 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.4% system, 0.0% nice, 99.6% idle
Mem: 257928K total, 191868K used, 66060K free, 122628K buffers
Swap: 530104K total, 0K used, 530104K free, 38356K cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
11225 root 0 0 7196 7192 6556 S 0.0 2.7 0:00 kdm
240 root -10 -10 22716 5628 1692 S < 0.0 2.1 12:48 XFree86
205 root 0 0 4596 4588 4280 S 0.0 1.7 0:00 kdm
184 root 0 0 3044 3044 628 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 xfs
6049 www-data 0 0 2188 2188 2108 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 apache-ssl
6050 www-data 0 0 2188 2188 2108 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 apache-ssl
6051 www-data 0 0 2188 2188 2108 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 apache-ssl
6052 www-data 0 0 2188 2188 2108 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 apache-ssl
6053 www-data 0 0 2188 2188 2108 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 apache-ssl
11263 root 2 0 1852 1852 1568 S 0.1 0.7 0:00 sshd
11264 wtautz 6 0 1364 1360 1052 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 bash
181 root 0 0 1236 1236 1108 S 0.0 0.4 0:02 sshd
222 bin 0 0 1008 1008 616 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 rmand
11296 wtautz 12 0 988 988 784 R 0.1 0.3 0:00 top
162 root 0 0 800 800 440 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 klogd
6009 www-data 0 0 792 792 644 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 gcache
190 root 0 0 708 708 580 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 cron
159 root 0 0 608 608 492 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 syslogd
187 daemon 0 0 600 600 520 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 atd
171 root 0 0 556 556 480 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 inetd
1 root 0 0 520 520 452 S 0.0 0.2 0:05 init
234 root 0 0 500 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty
236 root 0 0 500 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty
237 root 0 0 500 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty
238 root 0 0 500 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty
239 root 0 0 500 500 436 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 getty
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd
3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdate
4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
35 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd
