On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 03:04:37PM -0500, kc8pdr@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > What it is I look at Linux mint for a few untill 21 came out and the > desk top with nothing running it only uses about 600mg of ram . And > when I was using ver 20 with the older ver of gnome desktop installed > it used about 650 mg of ram Were you using the 32 bit version, by any chance? In any case, with 8gb of RAM available, this seems like "making use of available resources" rather than a problem. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org