I heard some rumors that this is normal. As you say, it is allocated memory reserved by the processes. If you are unlucky there might be a process that is leaking memory. Best regards, Peter Lauri www.dwsasia.com - company web site www.lauri.se - personal web site www.carbonfree.org.uk - become Carbon Free -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ravi Malghan Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 12:13 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: fedora OS high memory usage Hi: I have installed Fedora 6 on a laptop with 756MB RAM. With no application started when the machine boots up, the top is saying that, 601308K is being used. Mem: 774356k total, 601308k used, 173048k free, 19348k buffers Is this normal? or is this not really what it means. I read some postings that the memory usage shown here is what is allocated for the processes and not how much is being used. Any thoughts? Thanks Ravi ____________________________________________________________________________ ________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list