On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:34:05PM +0100, franck routier wrote: > Hi, > > I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB. > > When I check memory usage on my system (Gnome information Panel or even cat > /proc/meminfo), I'm very surprised to see that ~350 MB are used, with X / > Gnome started + apache + exim + postgre's postmaster. Well, why not... but > what surprises me is that I formely had 128 MB (+128 MB swap partition), > and everything worked fine... (I added memory only to be able to run VMware > concurrently). > > So my question is : can anyone explain me grossly how Linux uses memory ? > (ex "the more it finds, the more it eats" !) > > Btw, I use unstable, maybe there's a bug somewhere not freing unsuded > memory... >
This question comes up a lot, check the archives for more but here are a couple links for you - http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue3/2770.html http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/x1925.html#AEN2027 kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke
