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Just wanted to ask- is it normal that free command shows that my RAM is always almost full (3-4 MBs left) and is using some small amount of swap. Does it affect system performance? Or maybe i have some proccess that uses all this ram? Cause it becomes full only in some 3-4 hours. No performance lowering. Just wondering is it normal or not?
Depending on the amount of RAM you have it's quite common that it fills up. Only on machines with very large amounts of RAM (> 1 GB) the kernel has enough space not to need the swap area. Using the swap on your harddrive does affect performance, but not significantly. Dunno what RAM you have, but it might be a good idea to add another bank Use the ps and top commands to find resource-hungry processes.
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Use the ps and top commands to find resource-hungry processes.
Now i got it. Sorry for dumb question.
