Excessive mem usage in Linux

[KidViciou$]

im using Mandrake 7.2 and after i restart my computer into KDE, my mem usage is already about 100mb

i have a Dual PII 400 system w/ 128mb.

is it common to have this high mem usage?

 

[KidViciou$]

it is starting to lockup my system, with just one communicator window open, i am getting 128.5 mb used

what is happenning?

 

[bubba]

Type 'free' and post what you see there. Linux does a lot of buffering with unused memory.

 

[KidViciou$]

mem-
total mem: 130640
used 128032
free 2608
shared 0
buffers 10816
cached 54880
-/+buffers/cache-
used: 62336
free 68304
swap-
total 1020088
used 0
free 102008

 

[Phil21]

Are you sure that shared is 0? That should be theoretically impossible..

-Phil

 

[KidViciou$]

positive, who's theory did i break? do i get an award? 😀

 

[1KrazyFool]

Are you running a 2.4.0x kernel? I noticed that shared mem was 0 with the new kernel. At least, last time I checked. And notice how linux is using a lot of RAM for buffering and caching. That's why the mem use is high.

 

[KidViciou$]

nope, 2.2.17

i think thats it, it came on the mandrake 7.2 cd