Re: RAM 95% used

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

somethin2cool (<somethin2cool@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> even though i'm not running anything.
> 
> in processes task manager says i'm using a total of 25mb, inc
> dependencies.
> 
> in resources, it says 204. given the sluggishness of the totally
> minimal system i believe the later.
> 
> however, even if i was to open every gui ap, it shouldn't use that
> much.
> 
> what's wrong with it? why is it using up my ram?
> 
> atm, just ruunning xfce takes 200mb. nothing stupid is installed, the
> whole point was for a fast system

andreas@sirius:~$ free -m
          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        504        497          7          0         28        211
-/+ buffers/cache:     256        247
Swap:      1023        134        889



That means: 504 mbytes of RAM are used, but this includes 211 mbytes
that are used for file caching. The cache size will decrease when
applications need the RAM. The second line shows you how much RAM is
used without the cache. Also take a look at top or htop.

regards
        Andreas Janssen

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