On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 13:35, SI Reasoning wrote: > Linux caches ram so that programs run faster that have > already been opened.... This makes things much > snappier so the more ram you have the snappier your > system. Gkrellm will show you 4 different types of ram > usage. > used, buffers, cache, raw free
The reason I asked is that the GNOME 2 system monitor applet shows full memory utilization. It does actually show the 4 different types of ram, but unfortunately the "Other" category is what is showing up as 100%. So I will file a bug with them. Thanks for the replies. -- Steve Fox IBM Linux Technology Center http://www.ibm.com/linux/ltc http://k-lug.org
