[thechat] How much memory does Linux need?
Daniel J. Cody
djc at members.evolt.org
Mon Dec 17 12:19:29 CST 2001
http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/sag/buffer-cache.html
the second to last paragraph specifically, but i'd recommend reading the
whole thing :)
Chris and Danielle Johnston wrote:
> 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?
>>
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