How much RAM does your Linux use?

Im just wondering how much RAM you have got taken up when you use Linux?

On a fresh boot into xfce mines on 36mb. The most its been on is 102mb.

Im asking cos 102mb was more than I expected to see. That was with a cd burning app open, and firefox and a file manager.

 

Out of 1 Gig, i've generally got 200-300Mb free and only 8-9Mb used in the Swap.

 

About 30-40% of my system RAM (512mb) is in use with Mandriva, KDE 3.4 & firefox running. Not including the cache which doesn't really count as used RAM.

 

I'm using desktopBSD and usually only have about 150MB used while running KDE and some basic apps. Swap only gets touched when compiling ports.

 

Mandriva 2006 (kde 3.4) 256Mb DDR 2100

 

wow, its all more than I thought.

Mine seems normal really now, im hitting 250mb when compiling quite often.

 

256Mb its not a lot

twice as much as me

4X as much as me

 

Linux makes use of all available RAM, regardless of how much you've got. On my Kubuntu box, i'm using 628MB out of a total of 768MB. The computer is not using any swap space at all.

I'm running Opera, Skype, Kontact, Kget and Ksysguard.

When I only had 512MB, the computer would use around 400MB of it.

 

does anyone know where to look to discover how much RAM linux is actually using - im using mandriva 2k6

 

Run this command:

Code:

free -m

Of course you could install a monitor like gkrellm if you like the graphic approach.

 

Or you can run Ksysguard, which is the KDE equivalent to the Windows task manager

 

I never liked Ksysguard. I think its ugly and takes up too much space on the screen. I suppose they did a nice job of copying winblows task manager.

Is Ksysguard customizable/skinable? It would be nice if it weren't so big.

I always seem to go back to gkrellm. It is absolutely the best monitor I have seen or used and has great options. I have heard really good things about torsmo but I haven't tried it yet.

 

I got something from xfcegoodies to get my reading.

I created a loop before by mistake and it used up all my 768 RAM and then all my 500mb swap. It took forever to turn off! That was xflock4 opening xlock opening xflock4 opening xloxk etc.

 

I use ksysguard as a KDE panel applet to get a quick view of system resources. But you should calibrate it first.

 

Booted to KDE 3.5.3 on Debian "Etch" I'm currently using 99mb of RAM, including this instance of Firefox, plus Gaim and Amarok. All the rest is being used for buffers and cache.