Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Alan Connor <alanconnor@earthlink.net>:
> 
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why my memory footprint is so large when I am running
> NOTHING!
> 
> Running Debian with a 2.4.19 kernel
> 
> 
>  08:23:37 up 57 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.51, 0.15, 0.05
> 18 processes: 17 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:   0.0% user,   0.2% system,   0.0% nice,  99.8% idle
> Mem:    126528K total,   119212K used,     7316K free,    18932K buffers
> Swap:   128484K total,      700K used,   127784K free,    45920K cached
>

You are using 61676K (126528 user space - 18932 buffers - 45920
cached).  The buffers and caches will be reduced if physical memory is
needed by programs.
 
Jeffrey