fedora OS high memory usage

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"1962316k is actually occupied by my active"
How do you calculate that 1962316k is being occupied by your active processes?

On 2/27/07, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:12:43 -0800 (PST)
> Ravi Malghan <rmalghan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi: I have installed Fedora 6 on a laptop with 756MB
> > RAM. With no application started when the machine
> > boots up, the top is saying that, 601308K is being
> > used.
>
> Type this:
>
> free
>
> Look at the second line of output data.
>
> For example, this is what I have on this machine right now:
>
>  $ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       2057836    1958356      99480          0      77972    1437864
> -/+ buffers/cache:     442520    1615316
> Swap:      2031608        344    2031264
>
> I am using 442520k of memory, but 1962316k is actually occupied by my active
> processes, plus what amounts to a cache of what I have been doing recently just
> in case I might want to do it again soon.
>
> Linux uses all available ram for that sort of a cache unless it is otherwise
> required for something else whereupon it is immediately released and given to
> the process that asked for it.
>
>
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