High Memory Usage

[Beri, Rohit]

Beri, Rohit wrote:

> Guys:
>
> 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.
>
> 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 ...
>
> Thanks,
>
> -B
>
here what what i see when i run "free"

[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 ~]#