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koy	05-18-2004 10:39 AM

memory/swap usage

Newbie question here :p
Is it normal that memory always shows up almost full, and swap almost never used?

Code:

            total      used      free    shared    buffers    cached

Mem:        516696    508996      7700          0      56128    269152

-/+ buffers/cache:    183716    332980

Swap:      1032152        16    1032136

that's with an uptime of 3 and a half hours, but mozilla,xmms,VNC,aMSN,X-Chat open.

Is there something wrong with the swap that it's only using 16k and my memory used almost up to max?

Using SuSe 9.1 btw.

320mb

05-18-2004 10:44 AM

Code:

-/+ buffers/cache: 183716 332980

this is what your system is using.......physical RAM

check out this thread...........
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=177766

koy	05-18-2004 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 320mb

Code:

-/+ buffers/cache: 183716 332980

this is what your system is using.......physical RAM

check out this thread...........
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=177766

Ah, tanx, that clears things up :)
So linux just frees memory as it needs it :)

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