Re: [LUG] Memory etc.

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Tom Glare wrote:
| Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain in a nutshell, and a nutshell at
| that tending towards the walnut rather than the coconut persuasion, what
| those enigmatic memory usage figures mean in programs like "free" and
| "top" ? I used to have 16mb of memory in this machine, and it would use
| most of that memory plus a bit of swap just to run all the background
| processes. Since I upgraded to a wopping 48mb worth of memory, it
| similiarly uses most of that memory straight away. So if memory usage is
| not related to the size of the running processes, what is it related
| to ?
|
| Thanks, by the way, to everyone who organized and contributed to the do in
| St Austell. If the Internet explodes next week, it will be because I have
| been encouraged to dive into the uncharted waters of webmastership. Look
| forward to the next meeting. In or close to a pub again would be a good
| idea in my opinion.
|
| Tom.


<nutshell>Buffers</nutshell>

More of the pea as opposed to wall. I have the same, I have ~512 MB RAM
and same swap.. similar issue here.. works ok tho !

Neil
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