Örn Hansen wrote:
Is someone else seeing excessive memory usage, in SuSE ?
/home/oehansen> free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 511480 508108 3372 0 11072 74076 -/+ buffers/cache: 422960 88520 Swap: 1895628 1719860 175768
This is just the desktop, plus kmail running?
That's normal, it's the way Linux uses memory, it gets freed when needed. You won't see anything different on a Linux machine and this has been a recurring topic since day one. You also have some swapping going on. # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 515512 509848 5664 0 57288 82332 -/+ buffers/cache: 370228 145284 Swap: 5373724 260228 5113496 # free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 495 7 0 55 79 -/+ buffers/cache:360 142 Swap: 5247 254 4993 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=475631#post... gives a good description of what you are seeing. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.