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

[Henning Follmann]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:37 AM, sixtyfourbeets wrote:

> 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


This is by design.
The kernel keeps as much as possible into buffer. Yes you could change  
that, but you shouldn't.


Henning