> Dont forget that memory is used for caching and suchlike.. > > Why is is so bad to have 90% memory used after all is it > better for it to be unused? you paid for it! ;) So it is used > to speed things up, cache things you might need and re-used > when you request something in particular.. > > Unless everything slows to a crawl, swaps like mad or runs > out of memory you should take it with a pinch of salt (and > maybe wonder why the other 10% isn't made to do something > useful too)
In theory, this is fine. But on my system (512 MB RAM) it's not always like that. After a few hours of work with a lot of opening apps and documents and images, it dips into swap, and it does that even when I close most apps. So before I can continue working I have to reboot. This shouldn't be necessary. Is it because I have a 'pre' kernel? I wondered why they made the 2.2.18pre21 the default kernel for potato when they otherwise put software in it that are sometimes not usable because they're so ancient.
