Luis Chardon wrote:
> Oh, I was just concerned since I upgraded from 160M to 672M and at the
> time, I wasn't using up the whole 160, but now, I'm not using the whole
> 672, but using most of it and I was wandering where the memory was going
> to.
>>> Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> total used free shared buffers cached
>>>> Mem: 687708 489396 198312 0 198588 139984
>>>> -/+ buffers/cache: 150824 536884
>>>> Swap: 401584 0 401584
You might want to run xosview to watch system performance.
The "mem" graph has four colors green(user+sharedlibs),
orange(file buffer cache), red(paging cache), and the background
color (unused memory). Green memory is the stuff that is actively
being used by applications, orange and red is memory used to
improve performance. When new apps load or kernel mallocs occur
and there is no free memory, orange and red memory is used and
"converted" to green. And when the entire bar is green and more
memory is needed paging will begin and swap will start to grow.
I have 640M in my desktop and run vmware so the right side of my
mem bar is always red (vmware keeps as much of the windows virtual
memory space in the page cache as possible). But I can still run
new Linux apps with no problems.
duane
