Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 22:27, s. keeling wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: [snip] > >>> Is there a way to tell how much memory the Linux kernel is using, >>> and what for? >> Not really. Kernel 2.6.26 should expose b

Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: > > > > Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory > > is used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the > > usual init, getty, klogd, sshd, etc). > > Yes. Yup. > > I assume that this memory i

Re: Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/25/08 11:46, David wrote: > Hi list. > > Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory is > used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the usual init, > getty, klogd, sshd, etc). Yes. > I assume that this memory

Problems understanding RAM usage in top

2008-04-25 Thread David
Hi list. Is it normal for 'top' to show that most of your physical memory is used when there aren't any processes running? (besides the usual init, getty, klogd, sshd, etc). I assume that this memory is being used for Linux caches - file buffers etc to speed up disk access and so on. Is there a w