Ram Question

[Rick Mohr]

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Alexandre Strube wrote:

> I don't know for you, but it seems that linux uses most of memory
> available. In this moment I'm using a machine with 384mb, and 330 are
> used. On my 512mb and 768mb machines, it's the same. Doesn't bothers me
> anymore as it seems a normal behaviour.
>
> --
> []s
>
> Alexandre Ganso
> 500 FOUR vermelha - Diretor Steel Goose Moto Group

I would agree with that.  My machine has 2 GB of RAM and the "free"
command shows the following usage:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       2064448     885924    1178524          0     201544     338088
-/+ buffers/cache:     346292    1718156
Swap:      2048276          0    2048276

Linux happily eats up 885 MB of which about 540 Mb is for buffers and
cache.  Which is fine with me because it keeps my swap usage at zero ;-)

--Rick