[ale] Funny Mem Usage

[jhubbs at telocity.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

Timothy Ball wrote:
> 
> 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

But even when the 88MB of cache is accounted for, ~122MB is being taken
up by...what??  Are you saying that 2.4 just stakes out huge swaths of
RAM that aren't being consumed by processes?  I supposed there's no harm
done if so, but my sensibilities are going to need recalibrating.  

- Jeff
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