high mem

[Daniel Pittman]

Lokeey <lokeey at gmail.com> writes:

> I currently have 1GB of RAM installed and I've been noticing that it's
> up around 946 and as high as 980. is there a way to manage mem usage
> better.

Others have pointed out that this is caused by Linux using your memory
to cache disk content and is, consequently, a good thing(tm).

You may find it interesting to fire up a console and run the command
'free', giving output like this:

daniel at enki:~$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1035164    1020364      14800          0      10984     310948
-/+ buffers/cache:     698432     336732
Swap:      2409592     108012    2301580

As you can see my machine, with 1GB, uses the whole lot -- but 300MB or
so of that is actually available once buffers and cache are taken into
consideration.

Regards,
        Daniel
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