From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:04:47 -0800 Received: from wn42-146.sdc.org ([209.155.42.146]:54255 "EHLO lappi") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 10:04:32 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Sat, 16 Dec 2000 04:47:06 -0700 Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 12:47:06 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: James McD Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: memory hog Message-ID: <20001216124705.B6896@bacchus.dhis.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from vile8@hotmail.com on Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:10:56PM +0000 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 04:10:56PM +0000, James McD wrote: > I have an SGI INDY r4600 133 with 64 megs of ram and a 1 gig drive. I have > simple linux and the 2.4test9 kernel running on it. Thank you for the advice > on getting it booting from the hard drive btw Guido! > Here is my dilema. It has nothing running other than standard services > ie. login, networking. No web server, none of the goodies yet, and I am > consuming 60 out of my 64 megs of available ram. I do not even have X > installed yet. I know 64 megs isnt alot, but it seems to be quite a high > consumption for no services being run. Please let me know if anybody knows > if an SGI handles memory differently, or if I should just get more and quit > whining. That's a classic one - Linux uses most of it's `free' memory as disk cache, so it doesn't show up as `free' in the free output. Ralf