Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

From: Alan Connor (alanconnor_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/27/03

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    > From jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org Sun Jul 27 09:56:22 2003
    >
    >
    > Quoting Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net>:
    > >
    > >
    > > I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running
    > > NOTHING!
    > >
    > > Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel
    > >
    > >
    > > 08:23:37 up 57 min, 3 users, load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05
    > > 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
    > > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.2% system, 0.0% nice, 99.8% idle
    > > Mem: 126528K total, 119212K used, 7316K free, 18932K buffers
    > > Swap: 128484K total, 700K used, 127784K free, 45920K cached
    > >
    >
    > You are using 61676K (126528 user space - 18932 buffers - 45920
    > cached). The buffers and caches will be reduced if physical memory is
    > needed by programs.
    >
    > Jeffrey
    >

    Ahhh.... But why 61676k ? Isn't that rather a lot? I mean, I have a distro on
    a floppy disk (tmsrtbt) that does just about everything that Debian will do
    when running in a plain tty......

    I realize the comparison isn't really fair, but STILL....

    (and I haven't upgraded libc6 from the one that came with the original 2.2.20
    kernel)

    Thanks, Jeffrey.

    Alan 

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