I copy pasted my top out put below. Not sure if that was a good idea or not. My question is why is it showing 58Megs of ram being used but the % memory usuage barely adds up to 30% also could someoone guide me in understanding what the pri ni and such are thanks 2:38am up 23 days, 15:25, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 42 processes: 41 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 0.7% user, 0.7% system, 0.0% nice, 98.4% idle Mem: 61992K av, 58900K used, 3092K free, 0K shrd, 13432K buff Swap: 192740K av, 9364K used, 183376K free 22804K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1227 wwwrun 9 0 5568 2260 1972 S 0.0 3.6 0:09 httpd 804 wwwrun 9 0 5360 2088 2068 S 0.0 3.3 0:10 httpd 26105 ***** 11 0 2104 2060 1872 S 0.0 3.3 0:01 sshd 26103 root 9 0 1732 1672 1504 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 sshd 26122 root 9 0 1640 1640 1252 S 0.0 2.6 0:00 bash 26106 ***** 9 0 1544 1544 1168 S 0.0 2.4 0:00 bash 26121 root 9 0 1116 1116 792 S 0.0 1.8 0:00 su 421 root 9 0 1056 1036 412 S 0.0 1.6 0:12 klogd 805 root 9 0 1208 1028 988 S 0.0 1.6 0:00 bash 26174 root 14 0 976 976 776 R 1.3 1.5 0:03 top 937 root 9 0 1332 876 748 S 0.0 1.4 0:14 nmbd 533 root 9 0 852 700 664 S 0.0 1.1 0:14 sshd 596 root 9 0 1308 688 572 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 sendmail 590 mail 9 0 1192 684 596 S 0.0 1.1 0:00 sendmail 938 root 8 0 1068 576 496 S 0.0 0.9 0:00 smbd 418 root 9 0 580 560 468 S 0.0 0.9 0:03 syslogd 802 root 8 0 4232 548 532 S 0.0 0.8 0:02 httpd 796 root 9 0 872 508 508 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 login 733 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 734 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 735 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 736 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 737 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 738 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 739 root 9 0 536 496 396 S 0.0 0.8 0:00 nscd 6891 root 8 0 492 436 416 S 0.0 0.7 0:00 inetd 713 root 8 0 484 424 384 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 cron 557 at 9 0 432 380 344 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 atd 798 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 799 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 800 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 801 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 803 root 9 0 448 380 380 S 0.0 0.6 0:00 mingetty 500 bin 9 0 432 348 348 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 portmap 765 root 8 0 504 248 232 S 0.0 0.4 0:00 smpppd 1 root 8 0 76 64 44 S 0.0 0.1 0:05 init 2 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:13 kswapd 5 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:12 kupdated 9 root 9 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717