Re: is this normal ? (on my debian)
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, mao jud wrote:
> i was wondering, when i type free, system tells me its using 83MB of mem,
> but when i do a ps -auxf ... my memory usage doesnt even reach half that.
> there was even one time when it even reached to as high as 120 MB ...
>
> is this normal or can someone pls help and explain things to me ?
>
Linux is using memory for disk buffers and other sorts of caching.
Once the system has been up for a while it will probably use quite a bit
of memory all the time; there's no point in looking at the total figures
really. Memory will be freed up as needed, since applications have
priority.
Havoc
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