Sounds about right. If you have 32Mb of ram, and your apps are only using, say 10Mb, Linux is smart enough to use the free memory as disk-cache, rather than have it going to waste. As soon as this disk-cache memory is needed by some other application, Linux will free it.
Bryan On 28-Oct-99 Jacob Schmude <Your Jacob Schmude 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? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null
