On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jacob Schmude <Your Jacob Schmude wrote: > I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have > 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is > debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's > dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't > enable shadow ram or something?
It's really using all that memory. Don't worry though, most of it is used by disk cache and other such miscellany. When a program needs to use it, the kernel will let the program have it. Believe me, you can tell when you're out of memory. Shadow ram is totally irrelevant to Linux.
