Re: fedora OS high memory usage

Ravi Malghan wrote:
Hi: I have installed Fedora 6 on a laptop with 756MB
RAM. With no application started when the machine
boots up, the top is saying that, 601308K is being
used.

Mem: 774356k total, 601308k used, 173048k free,
19348k buffers

Is this normal? or is this not really what it means. I
read some postings that the memory usage shown here is
what is allocated for the processes and not how much
is being used.

Any thoughts?
Thanks
Ravi

It looks fairly normal - the amount of free memory is a bit high,
unless the system has not been up very long. Linux will use memory
that is not needed for programs for buffers and disk cache. This
tends to speed up operations, especially disk access if what you
want is still in the cache. This is a better then letting memory sit
unused.

The second line of the free command shows how much is used by
programs, and how much can be freed for program use. Freeing up
memory used for disk cache is normally fast, and buffers not too
much slower.

Mikkel
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