[TriLUG] Memory use with 2.4 kernel?

[Benjamin Reed]

Michael Czeiszperger [czei at webperformanceinc.com] wrote:
> I'm sure this has been discussed on this list before, but I've recently 
> upgraded my kernel at home to 2.4, and the memory usage seems to be really 
> high. I've got a 256MB box, and top reports the darn thing is using most of 
> it. I've turned off everything that's not in use.
> 
> Call me crazy, but I kind of expect a 256MB box to be able to handle a 
> vanilla workstation KDE configuration with no servers or any other extra 
> software running.

Are you actually experiencing performance problems?  The kernel is pretty
aggressive in it's caching; it tries to use all of the memory if it can, but
memory that's not needed by programs gets used for caching disk access and
such.

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