[thechat] How much memory does Linux need?

[Daniel J. Cody]

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?