question about percent memory in use

[discostu]

on my system running gnome w/ xmms, mozilla, kmail, my system monitor says 95% memory in use (246/251 MB). I wanted to know if this is normal or if it should be lower. If I close both mozilla and kmail it goes down to about 81%.

thanks in advance,
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[bsolar]

here there's already a discussion about memory usage.
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