Re: fedora OS high memory usage

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:05:33 -0500
Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Incorrectly. 442520K is used by his ("active") processes. 1615316K is
not; of that, 77922K is used for buffers, 1437864K is used for cache, and
99480K is not used.

Indeed. I managed to get my numbers turned around when I was
typing that message to you and read off of the wrong line.

Sorry if that caused any confusion.

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