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look at the buffers/cache line.
LInux, unlike other os's, doesn't believe in unused ram. Unused is worthless, so it caches stuff, and buffers stuff. If an app really needs the ram, the cache will clear out for it to use it...
I dont realy understand this but doesnt it look like I have poor memory performance here. The linux computer isnt doing anything sits it booted up.
I do have some servies that automatically turn on but should it take away from 512 memory half
I have sen some full web servers show 90 percent free memory
How can I fix this
[root@localhost root]# procinfo
Linux 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 2.96 20000731 ) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001 1CPU [localhost.localdomain]
Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
Mem: 513304 281164 232140 1512 46972 110912
Swap: 257000 0 257000
do free -m
look at the buffers/cache line.
LInux, unlike other os's, doesn't believe in unused ram. Unused is worthless, so it caches stuff, and buffers stuff. If an app really needs the ram, the cache will clear out for it to use it...
Look, you paid for 512mb of ram and now you are complaining that it is using more than half of it?!?
As long as you aren't using swap, you are OK. And, Linux doesn't dump things from ram until it needs the space for something else. Now if you are tracking down a memory leak or if that is just after the comp turns on without any desktop environments, etc. running, then that is a different story.
This is more or less after it turns on. I thought there was a memory leak. This is without opening gnome or kde and with the services that turn on with the computer like; httpd, proftpd, samba,ssh, etc
hello,
are you running a bunch of services? what does ps -aux in a terminal give ?
Sounds like something may be sucking a lot of ram up... is X running (kdm/gdm/xdm)?
just a quick question :
there is no way to free up used ram ?
As soon as something else needs the ram, it will dump the contents either into swap (if you don't have enough ram) or into The Void.
The OOM killer should kill unneeded pages when needed - don't worry !just a quick question :
there is no way to free up used ram ?
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