On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 11:36, James Sparenberg wrote:
> 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

Ok, now I'm seeing what you guys are saying.  I did cat /proc/meminfo
and got similar results.  Then I started vmware+WinXP and this was my
output:

total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  527233024 522104832  5128192        0    45056 423895040
Swap: 263168000   626688 262541312
MemTotal:       514876 kB
MemFree:          5008 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:            44 kB
Cached:         413416 kB
SwapCached:        544 kB
Active:         125232 kB
Inactive:       288884 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514876 kB
LowFree:          5008 kB
SwapTotal:      257000 kB
SwapFree:       256388 kB
Committed_AS:   148076 kB

Then I killed vmware and tried again:

 total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  527233024 477216768 50016256        0    40960 384438272
Swap: 263168000   626688 262541312
MemTotal:       514876 kB
MemFree:         48844 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:            40 kB
Cached:         374884 kB
SwapCached:        544 kB
Active:         120796 kB
Inactive:       254776 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       514876 kB
LowFree:         48844 kB
SwapTotal:      257000 kB
SwapFree:       256388 kB
Committed_AS:   112800 kB

I gained some back, but not as much as I originally had free.  That's
strange, when I looked at it an hour ago, I had barely used any memory
and none of my swap.  So I must have just not had enough opened this
morning?  Now I'm going to have to shut down and see what it looks like
- maybe I'll run root-tail and keep an eye on it.
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