Re: is debian eating my memory?
On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Jacob Schmude <Your Jacob Schmude wrote:
> I've got 32 mb in this p166 mmx system. The problem is that I have
> 32mb and at the shell prompt, 31mb is used up when I type free. Is
> debian really eating all that memory or is it something else?? There's
> dos/win on this pc too so I'm wondering if the tech person didn't
> enable shadow ram or something?
It's really using all that memory. Don't worry though, most of it is used
by disk cache and other such miscellany. When a program needs to use it,
the kernel will let the program have it. Believe me, you can tell when
you're out of memory.
Shadow ram is totally irrelevant to Linux.
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