[opensuse-factory] 10.3 Alpha 2
In running this with a pent 4, and 500MB of memory, I note that when Xorg is up and runniong 4 terminalss I get low on memory for other application, such as mounting cd's or running k3b. here is what I now have free: 504180k total, 487864k used, 16316k free, 27584k buffers Is SUSE this much if a 'hog'? -- Edward Dunagin-Dunigan-Dunnigan 4646 Glenwood Drive Bozeman, MT 59718 mobile 406-570-0992 Landline 406-556-7282 http://doas.montanalinux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:57 -0600, Edward Dunagin wrote:
In running this with a pent 4, and 500MB of memory, I note that when Xorg is up and runniong 4 terminalss I get low on memory for other application, such as mounting cd's or running k3b.
here is what I now have free:
504180k total, 487864k used, 16316k free, 27584k buffers
Is SUSE this much if a 'hog'?
All available memory will be used for file system cache! When an app needs memory, the file system cache will give the requested memory back... Cheers, Magnus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:57, Edward Dunagin wrote:
In running this with a pent 4, and 500MB of memory, I note that when Xorg is up and runniong 4 terminalss I get low on memory for other application, such as mounting cd's or running k3b.
here is what I now have free:
504180k total, 487864k used, 16316k free, 27584k buffers
Is SUSE this much if a 'hog'?
The complete output of free is more informative. You don't want memory that you paid for, to be unused, so Linux is using all what applications didn't asked for as cache. This is "free" with system + few applications running: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516224 445580 70644 0 10844 144556 -/+ buffers/cache: 290180 226044 Swap: 3526248 136 3526112 For more information: SUSE LINUX – Administration Guide Part II. System / Chapter 9. Special Features of SUSE LINUX http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.2/suselinux-adminguide_en/... that is about 9.2, but free command wasn't changed from then. or somewhat shorter: http://www.bellevuelinux.org/free.html -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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