On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Scott J Julian wrote: > Im running Mandrake 9.2 with a gig of pc2100 on a xp2100 cpu, seems to > me that linux uses alot more memory than my win2k install, still plenty > left though, havent gone under 500mb free yet > > You do realize that Linux makes use of your free memory for buffers and caching, don't you? That's why it looks like you are using most of your memory. If any applications need more memory, the system will reduce the amount of buffers/caching it is doing and let the apps use it. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list