I have been using Linux on my Laptop since a couple of months.
I first installed the kernel 2.2.12 (Red Hat 6.1) which I recently
updated to 2.2.16-3.
I decided to update the kernel since I thought that Linux was
using too much memory and that there might be a problem (I read once
that the kernel 2.2.12 was known to have some memory leach). Unfortunatly,
updating my kernel didn't change anything.
My question is the following : does my Linux indeed use too much memory
(and in that case have you got any idea why) or is every thing normal ?
Here is how much memories Linux takes (by the way, my kernel of normal
size : its bzImage is around 620 K)
I boot and I log in:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127948 28820 99128 11476 3212 16912
-/+ buffers/cache: 8696 119252
Swap: 68000 0 68000
Then I start X:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127928 41536 86392 17920 3848 24868
-/+ buffers/cache: 12820 115108
Swap: 68000 0 68000
Then I launch Netscape (4.73):
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127928 64464 63464 32920 4284 39580
-/+ buffers/cache: 20600 107328
Swap: 68000 0 68000
Then I start Emacs:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 127928 69868 58060 35864 4440 42640
-/+ buffers/cache: 22788 105140
Swap: 68000 0 68000
Thanks a lot for your help !
Emmanuel.
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