High Memory Usage

[Beri, Rohit]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Mi, den 15.12.2004 schrieb Beri, Rohit um 11:51:
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>>>I have had FC3 running on Dell Latitue 840 for about 3 weeks now. 
>>>around 3 days back I realized machine being a little slow and noticed 
>>>that out of 1gb of RAM, at all times the system is using 920+MB of 
>>>physical ram. Now based on my windows knowledge its not normal... 
>>>windows right after login, with no apps running takes around 180mb... 
>>>while FC3 runs at 900+mb right after login.
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>>>to release some memory i went to service and shut down most of them, 
>>>like the ssh, ftp, httpd and a few others, but still when I restart 
>>>the memory usage is same 900+mb... any thoughts as to it being normal 
>>>or something i need to watch ...
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>-B
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>>here what what i see when i run "free"
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>>[root at localhost ~]# free
>>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>>Mem:       1035084     994480      40604          0      22696     871120
>>-/+ buffers/cache:     100664     934420
>>Swap:      2031608          0    2031608
>>[root at localhost ~]#
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>This question comes up again and again. Please have a look at the
>"cached" value. It is pretty normal what you observe. Unused real memory
>(RAM) is wasted memory. The kernel automatically uses all the RAM in
>your machine and what's not needed to run current processes it uses for
>buffering and caching. See i.e.
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>http://learnlinux.tsf.org.za/courses/build/internals/ch05.html
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>Alexander
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well thanks!

thanks,

-B