On Sun September 5 2004 04:11, Graham Monk wrote: > On Saturday 04 September 2004 21:34, Curtis Sloan wrote: <snip> > > > > What is taking all this RAM (and not usually giving it back, at least not > > right away)? > > > > I can post details if anyone's interested. Just thought there might be a > > few "have you tried this?" ideas first. > > > > Thanks, > > Curtis > > Does this explain it? > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419 > > Graham
Wow, I've only read the first two paragraphs (gonna do the rest later...) and already I get the obvious answer: "The biggest place it's being used is in the disk cache, which is currently over 290 MB. This is reported by top as "cached". Cached memory is essentially free, in that it can be replaced quickly if a running (or newly starting) program needs the memory." I was wondering what "cached" meant! Thanks, Graham! Curtis _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
