On 28-Oct-1999, Jacob Schmude <Your Jacob Schmude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > 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? >
Whenever you access a file, linux tries to keep that file in memory. Hence your memory is full of data from the disk that is placed in the file cache/buffers. Of course if a program needs memory the first thing thrown out of memory is the file cache. Pete
