I dont realy understand this but doesnt it look like I have poor memory performance here. The linux computer isnt doing anything sits it booted up.
I do have some servies that automatically turn on but should it take away from 512 memory half

I have sen some full web servers show 90 percent free memory

How can I fix this

[root@localhost root]# procinfo
Linux 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 2.96 20000731 ) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001 1CPU [localhost.localdomain]

Memory: Total Used Free Shared Buffers Cached
Mem: 513304 281164 232140 1512 46972 110912
Swap: 257000 0 257000

try
$cat /proc/meminfo

looks for what it says under "active memory" thats the basic amount that it is actaully using

ok, what's the problem, you have 500mb of ram, of which 110mb is currently being used as cache and 47mb is being used for actual buffered data. looks fine to me, you're more than 90% free. maybe you need to find out a tiny bit about linux memory management....