brian moore wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 12:44:27PM -0700, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I was looking at the memory usage (gmemusage, and /proc/meminfo), > > and I was noticing that 'linux' was using nearly 50m of memory. I > > was rather disturbed, and wondering why > > Um, /proc/meminfo doesn't say how much the kernel is using (well, not > directly, anyway -- you can derive it by subtracting how much RAM is in > your system from the 'MemTotal' portion). > > Why do you think it's using 50M? Sure -you- aren't using it?
Um, the best way to get a ball-park estimate of how much memory in use is to run `free'. -- -=|JP|=- "Why, oh, why didn't I take the blue pill?" Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.atipa.com /\\ Kansas City, MO, USA | 816-595-3000 x1550 _\_V 6D04 39E0 CAE9 9ADA 2CA3 2EBE 898A 6C37 CA1E A29C
