[thechat] How much memory does Linux need?

[Chris and Danielle Johnston]

A link to those details would be great.

Thanks,

chris

-----Original Message-----
Yes it is normal for linux to appear to be using all of your memory, so 
no big worry.. details are available if you want them :)

Chris and Danielle Johnston wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have just reinstalled Red Hat 7.2 onto my machine and everything 
> seems to be running much better now. I was even able to get MySQL, 
> PHP, and Apache up and running thanks to apache toolbox.
> 
> But... When I run the memory usage monitor, the computer seems to be 
> using all of my memory and I have 640 megs of the stuff. Is this 
> normal? Under win2k, at the worst, I usually only end up using about 
> 300 megs of the stuff.
> 
> I thought Linux was less memory intensive then windows?