[nylug-talk] Free -m shows 300MB usage after upgrade to 1GB.

[sixtyfourbeets]

I am running Mepis and my machine had 512MB or RAM of which Mepis utilized
about less than 100MB.
I upgraded to 1GB and free -m showed 300MB being used.

Both instances are with KDE running and nothing else, just sitting there.

This seems a  little unusual that after a memory upgrade memory usage spike
for no clear reason.

Is there any setting in sysctl or something that I can change to force the
machine, or certain
apps to use less memory?

Thanks,
Steve M