Thanks for your inputs, I'll proceed with Xfce installation for now... if I end up with another choking slug, I'll come back to haunt you! :o)
2009/11/14 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> > 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 > > > 2009/11/14 Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com> > On Sat,14.Nov.09, 00:21:58, Ionreflex wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > 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... > > If the system is idle than you don't really need the RAM, don't you? > Watch the swap usage, because it's a better indicator. > > Regards, > Andrei
