high mem

[Ian Rose]

Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Lokeey <lokeey at gmail.com> writes:
>
>   
>> I currently have 1GB of RAM installed and I've been noticing that it's
>> up around 946 and as high as 980. is there a way to manage mem usage
>> better.
>>     
>
> Others have pointed out that this is caused by Linux using your memory
> to cache disk content and is, consequently, a good thing(tm).
>
> You may find it interesting to fire up a console and run the command
> 'free', giving output like this:
>
> daniel at enki:~$ free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1035164    1020364      14800          0      10984     310948
> -/+ buffers/cache:     698432     336732
> Swap:      2409592     108012    2301580
>
> As you can see my machine, with 1GB, uses the whole lot -- but 300MB or
> so of that is actually available once buffers and cache are taken into
> consideration.
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
>   
Also there is a nice real-time visual tool that gives you information 
about your memory (both physical and swap) which also gives the 
explanation about the value of disk cache. From the K-menu, System > 
KInfoCentre > Memory

-- 
Ian