> From: "Michael S. Dunsavage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> the thing is ......im not running X
>
> --
> Michael S. Dunsavage
>
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Jasper Jans wrote:
>
> > That indeed tells you that 60 of 96 is used
> > Try top to pull up a list of things running.
> > Prolly your X is eating up memory..
<snip>
A lot of the memory is being used as a disk cache - you want this to
happen because the memory is faster than the disk. All modern
operating systems do this - that is why you need to shut the machine
down cleanly (so the file info stored in memory is flushed to the
disk before power off).
<snip>
> > | [zeus@localhost zeus]$ cat /proc/meminfo
> > | total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
> > | Mem: 97861632 61251584 36610048 11558912 12476416 34770944
> > | Swap: 125886464 3244032 122642432
> > | MemTotal: 95568 kB
> > | MemFree: 35752 kB
> > | MemShared: 11288 kB
> > | Buffers: 12184 kB
> > | Cached: 33956 kB
> > | SwapTotal: 122936 kB
> > | SwapFree: 119768 kB
<snip>
Dave
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