Chris Owen said:
> Hello again,
>
> I am trying to get a useable debian 3.0 installation going on an old
> Pentium laptop with 16MB RAM. I have re-compiled my kernel to include
> only what I think are the essentials, and cut out most unnecessary
> background processes. But even without running any useful programs, and
> without running X or anything, I find that free gives my physical memory
> usage at nearly 11MB:
>
> # free
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 14876 10888 3988 7824 504 6448
> -/+ buffers/cache: 3936 10940
^^^^^
> Swap: 65516 584 64932
the carrots say it all. most of the ram is being allocated to disk cache,
which is normal. take my redhat box which has 1.5GB of ram:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1547752 1524184 23568 0 218000 1095224
-/+ buffers/cache: 210960 1336792
Swap: 2040244 0 2040244
about 1.3GB of it is allocated to cache.
the system will free the memory if/when it needs it for other things.
so no worries.
nate
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