unix memory question

[Justin Zygmont]

> Your system appears to be mostly free.  Linux is very aggressive at
> caching things in memory before writing them to disk and keeping
> previously used information in memory in case it's needed again.  That's
> part of why you see the "cached" section at almost 600MB.  Also, your
> swap file isn't being touched - another indicator that your machine is
> fine with memory.

this is the nice thing about how linux works.  In windows they'll tell you 
the % of resources used, with linux it makes use of all your resources 
even if they're not being taken up.