On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Ken Schneider wrote:
Running SuSE Linux 5.2 with KDE upgrade to 1.0. After upgrading from 32M of ram to 96M I noticed the following happening after a boot. ... <4>Probing PCI hardware. <4>Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS <4>Memory: 79328k/81920k available (776k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1432k data) <6>Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 <6>NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. ... At boot time it clearly shows 79328k of memory available for programs. But when I run free I get the following...
As you can see I now only have 1440k of free memory.
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 79328 77884 1444 54612 4900 16656 -/+ buffers/cache: 56328 23000 Swap: 104416 0 104416
Everything looks normal to me. (course I'm probably wrong...) The way I understand it, Linux caches disk files in ram to speed access. Here's mine: stevep@Asimov:/etc > free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 30824 30192 632 21528 4500 17100 -/+ buffers/cache: 8592 22232 Swap: 68540 752 67788 My 32mb box runs great, btw. Have not tried staroffice, but I hear it eats swap like mad. Steve. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>