that's normal, it's caching disk access. Your actual usage is 197M
(still crazy if you remember spending $75 on a 4MB SIMM and thinking it
was a damn good deal).

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 08:54, Brian V Bonini wrote:
> Am I reading this wrong?
> 
> $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
> cached
> Mem:        516276     503136      13140          0     108192    
> 197816
> -/+ buffers/cache:     197128     319148
> Swap:       449780      14992     434788
> 
> 
> why woudl the system be using 500+mb of mem? 'top' shows nothing weird..
> 
> 
> 
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