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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] who's using my memory

On 14/05/07 Ralph Boland said:

> Immediatly after booting my ubuntu 6.10 and creating a virtual terminal
> I do a
> 
>      procinfo  memory
> 
> Result:
> 
> Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
> Mem:        247324      243376      3948           0        8056
> Swap:       722884           0           722884
> 
> Since I am doing practically nothing,  who is using all this memory?
> Can I turn some of if off?

You paid for the RAM. Don't you want it used?

Where's the +/- buffers/cache line? That's the important one. 

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier [ at ] digitaltorque [ dot ] ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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