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. -- Michael Holt Snohomish, WA (o_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] (o_ (o_ //\ www.holt-tech.net (/)_ (/)_ V_/_ www.mandrakelinux.com ==================================================================< Windows is the best $89 solitaire game you can buy.
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