What is hammering my memory?

[Markus Schönhaber]

02.07.2010 16:00, Dotan Cohen:

> On my daily driver Dell Inspiron laptop I have been testing Kubuntu
> 10.10. Both alphas hammer the memory terribly:
> merkat1 at dcl:~$ free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          2011       1927         83          0          0       1228
> -/+ buffers/cache:        699       1312
> Swap:         2863          0       2862
> merkat1 at dcl:~$

Hm, only roughy 1/3 of the RAM is actually used by "programs". The vast
majority is used as cache.

[...]

> What might be eating all that memory? Thanks.

I consider what you observe to be pretty normal.

Linux assumes that if you put all those nifty RAM modules into your
machine, you want them to be actually used ;-)

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Regards
  mks