On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:18, Michael Holt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 10:11, Jack Coates wrote:
>
> > > Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem
> > > and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've
> > > got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal?
> >
> > well, it's normal for me :-) I've read that the VMM will allocate as
> > much RAM as feasible and practical to disk caching.
> > --
> > Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
>
> LOL, I didn't mean anything by it, I've heard that too and wondered what
> the basis was :)
If I do a cat on /proc/meminfo
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 390709248 371380224 19329024 0 13205504 181313536
Swap: 1230839808 48295936 1182543872
MemTotal: 381552 kB
MemFree: 18876 kB
MemShared: 0 kB
Buffers: 12896 kB
Cached: 172232 kB
SwapCached: 4832 kB
Active: 147668 kB
Inactive: 190916 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 381552 kB
LowFree: 18876 kB
SwapTotal: 1201992 kB
SwapFree: 1154828 kB
And the only thing beyond kde open is evolution.
James
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