Hal,
Thank you so much for the detailed explanation. It helped me alot. And I
was worried but it's cool ;)
Thanx again.
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Michael S. Dunsavage
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 10:21:10PM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> > the thing is ......im not running X
>
> That explains why it is only 60 meg then. Surely would be higher with
> X. Actually, linux is going to try to use all your memory. It's there,
> might as well find something for it to be doing. No point in having
> unused RAM. If not for apps, then it will start allocating for buffers
> and cache, and then reallocate as required. This is nothing to worry
> about (if you are), and is actually by design and a good thing.
>
> > --
> > 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..
>
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Michael S. Dunsavage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Sunday, 20 February, 2000 3:19 AM
> > > Subject: memory useage
> > >
> > >
> > > | [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
> > > |
> > > | -------==-----------
> > > |
> > > | [zeus@localhost zeus]$ free
> > > | total used free shared buffers cached
> > > | Mem: 95568 60152 35416 12696 12184 33956
> > > | -/+ buffers/cache: 14012 81556
> > > | Swap: 122936 3168 119768
> > > | [zeus@localhost zeus]$
> > > |
> > > | Is this telling me that 60megs of my 96meg has been used.......and if so
>
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