Am I wasting my RAM?
Hey,
I have 1GB RAM and am only using 107MB of 1011MB available. I am running: XFCE4 Mozilla Firefox IRSSI Now, using XFCE is only a temporary thing (though I do think it's great) so when I start using KDE again I realise it will go up again. However, with all this RAM free is there anything more productive I could be doing with it? Caching? I don't know. Thanks Tom |
Over time, you should see that Linux is using all that RAM, probably for "buffer" memory which means a disk-cache. If nothing's going on yet, then obviously the RAM might not yet be filled.
Be sure also that you are looking at physical memory use, of the entire system, not the virtual memory use of a single process. |
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http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ people with extra ram should scan the universe for extra-terestials |
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After all: the best proof that there is intelligent life out there is that they haven't made contact with us. To the original poster: if desktop *only* is all you'll ever do, and you're not going to start video or graphics editing any time soon 1 GB is indeed overkill (caching and buffering, thus performance gains aside). Cheers, Tink |
If you get into graphics editing, such as Gimp, or sound editing, you will see that ram get used.
There is also the option of seting up part of that ram as you swap space, instead of a swap partition. Swap is faster that way. Google up this article: how to use ram as swap. |
How on Earth could you benifit from using RAM as swap?
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As for the "swap in ram" issue - I suspect this will become one of those "recurring acorns". |
I've never heard of swap in RAM before but it just seems like such a useless idea I couldn't help but comment. Guess I haven't been around long enough to hear it done to death ;)
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Swap is used to expand the amount of available memory beyond the physical size or RAM, so swap in RAM is a mindless idea :D It's like making a piece of cloth longer by cutting off a some from one end and sewing it to the other end.
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might as well fold molecules |
or find large primes.
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