linux hogging memory

[Christopher Chan]

Dhananjay Makwana wrote:
>>1) What does free -m tell you?
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> [root at backup root]# free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    cached
> Mem:           374         83        291          0          8       41
> -/+ buffers/cache:         33        341
> Swap:         1027          0       1027
> 

That looks good...is that the figures you get when you say Linux takes 
too much?

> As suggested by Dave on this thread, I am going to upgrade the kernel on
> the box. But a post from Alan suggests a possible bug in slocate. 
> 
> 
> 

Upgrade to 2.6.6 if you can. Things are better there and FC1 can handle 
2.6.x out of the box (that is, no need to upgrade module tools and other 
stuff)