This is a FAQ, regardless of distro. Run top. Type uppercase M. This sorts by memory usage. Also look at fourth and fifth lines from the top. This give your memory usage. The free number is the amount of unused memory. It does not include the amount used for buffers (fourth line, far right) or disk caching (fifth line, far right). If you want the amount of memory actually used, subtract these amounts from the total (fourth line, left side).
If you are running X, run xosview to see a graphical view of memory usage. HTH, Jeffrey Quoting will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote: > > My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent > > show which process that eats all the memory. > > > > Can anyone figure out what to do this could be a kernel issue or > > something? > > so here you've got 512mb of ram -- and you don't want to use it, > is that right? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]