[Gllug] memory usage in linux

[John Hearns]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Pavel Bradut Boghita wrote:

> This is my first posting on this list so greetings to you all.
Hi Pavel! Greetings to you from Ireland.
> I have been using linux for over a year, but only recently started to learn 
Great! That's what it is all about.

 By running 'top' I've noticed that a great 
> deal of memory is being used. I had 128 M of memory and the system was using 
> most of it. Now I have 384 and 226 is being used. I understand that this is 
I think what you are seing is the disk buffers.
Linux uses unused memory as disk buffers - this usage grows,
and you apparently use up very much memory.
But don't worry - this is not a bad thing, and the memory wil be freed
when it is needed.
Look at the manual pages for the commands "free" and "vmstat" to
learn more.



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