Re: [Cooker] OT - Ram Management

[Joshua Jackson]

Ah...
I guess I was incorrectly viewing how Linux manages its RAM.  I do find
it odd, though, that X will use up an extra 50MB's, seemingly, if left
alone for 12 hours.  I say this, because I rebooted at like midnight and
it showed like 80MB used, then I went to bed and when I got up and
checked around noon it said 125MB used.
If I'm not opening programs how is that explained?  X just grows?
JJ

Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> That's normal. The RAM ``useage'' fills up as quickly as possible, since Linux
> is loathe to have any of its RAM unemployed (ie it doesn't expend effort kicking
> stuff out of RAM unless it has a reason).