>I ran the mandriva live cd (the 1 cd distro) and
>noticed that it consumed a large chunk of ram (about
>390 megs.) and left me with 4 megs of ram (i have 512
>installed and 128 megs of that is consumed by teh
>video card..yes i do have shared video). I went into
>its task manager to see howmuch it was consuming and
>what processes i could clsoe out. A great majority of
>the processes looked like system processes.
Do take into account that Linux always uses as much RAM as it can get.
As soon as you need RAM to run programs, Linux will release enough for
the software to run. Things run faster from RAM than from constantly
loading things from harddisk.
My machine has 512Mb also, and there appears 10Mb free. Yet I can run
anything I like. Simultaneously.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 514948 504320 10628 0 20952
205336
-/+ buffers/cache: 278032 236916
Swap: 506008 118664 387344
Paul
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