Re: RAM 95% used

From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:28:13 +0200

somethin2cool (<somethin2cool@xxxxxxxxx>) wrote:

even though i'm not running anything.

in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc
dependencies.

in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally
minimal system i believe the later.

however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that
much.

what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram?

atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the
whole point was for a fast system

andreas@sirius:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 504 497 7 0 28 211
-/+ buffers/cache: 256 247
Swap: 1023 134 889

That means: 504 mbytes of RAM are used, but this includes 211 mbytes
that are used for file caching. The cache size will decrease when
applications need the RAM. The second line shows you how much RAM is
used without the cache. Also take a look at top or htop.

regards
Andreas Janssen

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