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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