Hi,

i just installed a RH9 on my laptop (presario 14XL355) and i have a problem with the ram :

there are 128 Mb of ram and as soon as i get logged in, the mem use is set to 99 to 100%.

$free
indeed returned that almost the whole ram is used.

i tried a
$ps -aux
if i sum de mem%, i'm far from 100% (can't remember how far, but it was far ;o)

8Mb are for the video card, is it because of the sharing of the memory that i have all my ram used ?

How could i determine what is taking this amount of ram ?

thanks for your attention.

cheers

Try

$ top

57 process : 56 sleeping, 1 running

CPU states : 2.5%user 0.7%system 0 nice 0towait 97%idle
mem: 117912k av, 114765k used, 3136k free, ok shrd, 4496k buff
84588 actv, 804k in_d, 1620k in_c

below i have
size command
20308 X
8992 gnome-terminal
... (little figures)

hum, it seems to be the display...what a chance !

any clue ?

Hi fleuh,

High RAM usage is not necessarily a bad thing in Linux, after all what is the point in having RAM if you are not going to use it

If you do a little search of these forums you will find many threads asking the same question, and many excellent explanations of Linux memory usage.

here is one current thread with a great explanation by Electro:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=228794

HTH,

mark