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Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used



> From jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org Sun Jul 27 09:56:22 2003
> 
> 
> 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
> 


Ahhh.... But why 61676k ? Isn't that rather a lot? I mean, I have a distro on
a floppy disk (tmsrtbt) that does just about everything that Debian will do
when running in a plain tty......

I realize the comparison isn't really fair, but STILL....


(and I haven't upgraded libc6 from the one that came with the original 2.2.20
kernel)


Thanks, Jeffrey.

Alan




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