On 2009-11-14 06:21 +0100, Ionreflex wrote: > I've just installed a fresh debian on an old IBM ThinkPad A21e (see cpuz > info in attachement) and I'm kinda bedazzled - in the wrong sense! - at how > much an idle system seems to hog RAM : out of 256, half of it is always > used...
It is used as a cache for files from the hard disk. The services running on the system take only 17 Megabyte, as can be seen in the third line of the "free" output: > frosties:~# free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 256396 125280 131116 0 7908 99752 > -/+ buffers/cache: 17620 238776 > Swap: 369452 0 369452 This is absolutely fine. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
