[99004] in RedHat Linux List
Re: is this normal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cs96sjd@brunel.ac.uk)
Wed Nov 11 16:17:41 1998
From: cs96sjd@brunel.ac.uk
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981111211338.10595K-100000@alpha.computers.org> from Iztok Polanic at "Nov 11, 98 09:15:09 pm"
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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:11:18 +0000 (GMT)
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Iztok Polanic said something like :
> I have 80 MB of RAM and when I log in, and type free I get this:
>
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 78608 46468 32140 12192 17376 19900
> -/+ buffers: 9192 69416
> Swap: 48696 248 48448
>
> Is this normal that my system uses so much RAM??
Well.. you said yourself, you've got 80mb which is quite a bit (but not alot compared with others i've seen). Your swap does seeem abit large however. I have 88mb and 26mb swap... but not terrifically important... Linux tends to cache alot of data as it gets read, making continuous reads of bits of data more efficient, it also means that ram doesn't get wasted doing nothing.
What you have to remember is that losedoz '95 isn't running... so yeah.. you've got lotsa ram :)
Simon D
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