[Gllug] Memory usage when idle

[John Hearns]

On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:54, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 12:33:23PM +0100, NorthLondon John wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The story so far: I've installed Debian on an old laptop (266mhz, 
> > 64mb), and performance is abysmally slow. Not expecting blindingly 
> > fast, ram is the bottleneck (planning on bumping the memory up), but X 
> > is almost unusably slow.
Just booted the laptop up.
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     
Mem:         61500      39488      22012          0      11716   
-/+ buffers/cache:      11844      49656
Swap:       192772          0     192772


That's with a stock Fedora kernel. No X.

Once iceWM is started, no applications running:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     
Mem:         61500      58572       2928          0      12376      
-/+ buffers/cache:      20016      41484
Swap:       192772          0     192772


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