How much memory do you have..


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Hmm I was messing about with gnome panels and such and turned on the system monitor panel.. It says 55% memory in use.. What?!?! I have 512mb ram and half is in use when all I've got running is amsn and firefox? I mean windows isn't that bad :huh:

Do you really need more memory? Oh and by the way I'm running Mandrake 10 CE..

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I believe linux takes advantage of all the RAM possible, so unless you just power on your RAM usage will always seem very big.

I am not positive about this, but that is what mine always says. Also your running more than just amsn and firefox, most likely your running all the other damons that run at startup by default.

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Yeah, Windows XP is like that too. Pretty much all of the modern OSes do this. It may seem like RAM is full, but you can start Photoshop, a big video editor, 10 browser windows, and whatever else and just keep going.

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with mdk 10 you are probably r unning several services that you dont know of

im running gentoo and gnome 2.6, im only using 96/512 ram.. but i also dont run any un-needed services

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Linux handles the freeing of RAM differently to windows. When a program exits, its memory space isn't immediately released and emptied, its tagged as no longer in use. Then if you fire up the same app again, it's still mostly in memory, so it starts up very quickly. Or if you fire up another app which needs that memory, it notices that the memory is tagged as no longer being used so it wipes it and puts the new app in memory.

At least, thats what I think happens. Roughly. Ish. Its probably not exactly right, though.

Basically, Its normal, and nothing to worry about, and you don't need more ram to run linux than other operating systems. :p

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i got 256 with 1gig swap

most of my 256 is used, like 200, but ihave gnome 2.6 with gdesklets and constantly refreshing game servers and stuff :p so its understandable - still runs fine tho

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I am running 384MB PC100 and it works fine. A little slower than XP with the same amount, but there's nothing wrong with the performance that I am getting.

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I have 512 mb, in a dualchannel 256mb x2 manner.

Linux is nicer with my RAM then windows; I only the use the swap file once in a bajillion years (And I know I'm not using it, because my swap is on a different drive, so when it gets used, I can hear the drive turning on!)

But then again, I'm a little beyond 'minimalistic'. I love Fluxbox... its soooo fast... and doesn't have a memory footprint, it practically has a memory toeprint.

:rolleyes: :laugh:

Yes, I run Fluxbox on a 2.4 Ghz P4. Be afraid. Ph34r t3h 5p33d. :devil: :yes:

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Errrr.. Is this a poll? :blink:

I have 512MB, nothing fancy on a Athlon 1600 (running at 1200MHz). I run full KDE fine, with no need to select a lighter Window Manager.

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