Shaju Peter said:
> Hello everybody
>      I have observed that after exiting for xwindows
> to shell prompt tthe memory usage observed by
> using top is very high but after running some
> executables on shell prompt it was immediatly comming
> down
> does any valid reason behind this?

disk cache. the system is slowly flushing it out. the 'free' command
gives more useful info about memory usage.

nate





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