Memory Free and KDE Speed -- Help me understand

Wed Jul 18 13:55:51 UTC 2007

On Wednesday 18 July 2007 02:17:35 Robert Tilley wrote:
> I have 512 MB on a 2.0 GHz processor, just for reference.
>
> In KInfoCenter, Free Physical Memory is usually listed as less than 10 MB
> when the usual suite of applications is running.

Unused RAM = wasted RAM. Everything apps don't need is used for buffers/caches 
and freed when needed.

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