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linoleum
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: Almost all RAM used [SOLVED]

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Hi,
is it normal that notwithstanding no applications are in use my laptop (ibm x40) says it is using almost all my RAM?
I'm using xfce4 on gentoo with a 2.6.15-r1 kernel and here the "top" output

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top - 17:26:04 up 4 days, 15:05, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.04, 0.00
Tasks: 73 total, 1 running, 72 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.3% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 96.7% id, 3.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 905368k total, 796556k used, 108812k free, 436676k buffers
Swap: 500464k total, 1060k used, 499404k free, 110588k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2331 angelo 16 0 2108 1060 824 R 0.3 0.1 0:00.06 top
1 root 16 0 1460 452 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.65 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.47 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
5 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread

Thanks

Last edited by linoleum on Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:52 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Genone
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:46 pm Post subject:

yes, that's normal.

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BlackEdder
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

Let's at least give the guy a link to an explanation So here is why: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-175419-highlight-memory+usage+ram.html

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