[ale] Funny Mem Usage

[timball at tux.org (Timothy Ball)]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 01:32:15AM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Note that I have KDE and SETI at Home running, and nothing else of note. 
> However, look at that "211924K used" business.  Is top misreporting this
> somehow?  Nothing seems to justify nearly half of this RAM being taken
> up, including cache.

Linux is being smart about your memory state. It's best and far faster
for things to stay in cache than to reload from disk all the time...

--timball

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