What is hammering my memory?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 2 16:22:42 UTC 2010


2010/7/2 Markus Schönhaber <ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de>:
> 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 ;-)
>

Then what should I check to see what is causing the system to be sluggish?

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