2013/10/1 Dimitris Zervas <dzervas@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Um, I have a very powerful pc, so I get no slow downs. i7-3820 with 16GB of > ram. > htop reports no CPU usage, but free -m reports some interesting memory > consumption. > free -m > total used free shared buffers > cached > Mem: 16030 15868 161 0 150 13831 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1886 14143 > Swap: 0 0 0 > > I know that "used" is for caching/etc., but 15GB is a bit too much. > Downgrading the kernel is not an option because the kernel is patched and > downgrading would take just too much. > I know have 234 kworkers, without suspending. > > Thank you for your answers This is perfectly normal, and expected, if you haven't rebooted for a while. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. You should care about the "-/+ buffers/cache:" figures instead. -- Pedro Emílio Machado de Brito Engenharia de Computação 2012 - Unicamp Coordenador Tecnológico - Centro Acadêmico da Computação (CACo) (19) 99873-0963 - Facebook/Skype: pedroembrito - Github: pemb 18hxPDGcNDpsYYKJ2aghSh3mm9n3c4C7pf "Repair what you can — but when you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible." · Eric S. Raymond
