Not even "Vista" is occupying so much Ram. Yes I'm using Swap ( is free ) After reboot memory is ~ 650 Mb and 1400Mb free... if i update some package's the occupying ram growing up to 1800 Mb. No problems by now
I think what we have here is a misunderstanding of how Linux uses RAM vs how Microsoft does it. Microsoft does not use RAM efficiently, it simply allows unused RAM to sit around idle while it swaps stuff to that well known swap file it needs. Linux uses available RAM to cache disk blocks and speed up things that take time.. like disk writes (which are cached to RAM unitl the system has time to actually write the data). Take a look at free -m For example here is mine right now........ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4052 3909 143 0 197 1601 -/+ buffers/cache: 2110 1942 Swap: 4102 0 4102 The used value (3909) will almost always be really close to the total value (4052). The buffers/cache value (2110) is how much RAM your apps are actually using. The cached value (1601) is the spare memory that is used for caching things like disk write blocks etc. So... you've noticed something that is good abotu Linux, not bad. :-) C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org