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

On 15/05/07, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier [ at ] digitaltorque [ dot ] ca> wrote:

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.


I got this info from running:

    procinfo memory

I didn't see the line you are referring to.

Ralph

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