[geeks] WTF - Linux on a laptop...

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 08:46:32AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> My little System Performance "system tray applet" shows massive memory
> usage nearly all the time (80% running X, Ximian Evolution, and, of
> course, the default raft of crap from RH - but the system is "quiet")

Spare memory is probably being used as a buffer cache.  Solaris does the
same type of thing as well, "we've got memory, so why not use it?"  When
an app requests it, memory gets re-allocated.

Bill

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