[WBEL-users] what is mdmpd?

[Adrian Snyman]

On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12:29, Bevis Peters wrote:
> Not a specific WB question as such, but I had noticed that even with
> 512Mb RAM, WB + X + gnome seems to claim 500Mb of it (I assume the
> kernel or something is claiming it for later use, I can't believe that
> with one X login running one xterm quite that much RAM is actually being
> actively used! - though I see that each xterm takes 3Mb!!!!).  


remember that some of the memory is cached ..

ie:
the command "free" will show you the cached memory .. which becomes available 
as soon as it is required ...

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