Re: linux eats up soo much memory

From: Sandgroper (steveray_at_KNICKERSiinet.net.au)
Date: 03/14/05

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    Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:48:41 +0800

    "Avi" <subhas85@gmail.com> wrote in message
    news:fb765208.0503132003.1f41dfcd@posting.google.com...
    > i currently have 2 machines running fedora core release 3, the first
    > one acts a file server and the second one acts as a router with IP
    > masq.
    > After just booting both machines up and running the 'top' command
    > yields
    >
    > <router computer>
    > Mem: 288672k total, 271812k used, 16860k free, 2632k
    > buffers
    >
    > <server computer>
    > Mem: 386156k total, 382552k used, 3604k free, 656k
    > buffers
    >
    > both computers as you can see contain alot of RAM, yet it gets eaten
    > up sooo fast from just a BOOT!. both machines have httpd setup, and
    > after lookin at the %mem column on the 'top' command, i see that the
    > user apache has several processes running httpd.

    That's how linux runs , especially if you are running linux with a GUI .

    Basically the file system and memory allocation and usage is totally
    different to a Windows System and uses up most available memory.

    Even when I run my system with 512 Mb of Ram , FC3 uses up something like
    450 Mb of Ram just for running a GUI and doing minor stuff.

    196 Mb of Ram is the minimum recommend requirement for FC3 running a GUI ,
    256 Mb is desirable , but I have found that 512 Mb is best.

    If you can , try adding more Ram to bring it up to 512 Mb. 

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