Re: [tlug] Memory 100% used. Is that a Bad Thing(tm)?

["A.Sajjad Zaidi" <sajjad@example.com>]

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 11:31:15AM +0900, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote:
> 
> Mem:   516820K av,  512368K used,    4452K free,       0K shrd,   14648K 
> buff
> Swap: 1052216K av,   15632K used, 1036584K free                  333960K 
> cached
> 
> Should I get more RAM or is it normal for Linux to use all the RAM it can 
> get?

'free' will give you a clearer output of memory usage, but from the
'top' output, its clear that you are actually using only 168212K
(164MB). The rest is used by buffers and cache (14MB and 326MB).

So no, you dont need to get more RAM, but its always nice to have as
much as possible.

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