Re: Novice memory usage question
On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 05:34:05PM +0100, franck routier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have added memory to my computer to up to 384 MB.
>
> When I check memory usage on my system (Gnome information Panel or even cat
> /proc/meminfo), I'm very surprised to see that ~350 MB are used, with X /
> Gnome started + apache + exim + postgre's postmaster. Well, why not... but
> what surprises me is that I formely had 128 MB (+128 MB swap partition),
> and everything worked fine... (I added memory only to be able to run VMware
> concurrently).
>
> So my question is : can anyone explain me grossly how Linux uses memory ?
> (ex "the more it finds, the more it eats" !)
>
> Btw, I use unstable, maybe there's a bug somewhere not freing unsuded
> memory...
>
This question comes up a lot, check the archives for more but here are a
couple links for you -
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/lj-issues/issue3/2770.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/FAQ/Linux-FAQ/x1925.html#AEN2027
kent
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