On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Peter Arremann wrote: > I just upgraded my laptop from FC1 to FC3 a few days ago and since then I'm > seeing terrible memory usages. The laptop has 1GB plus 1GB swap I have similar config - laptop with 1G ram, 2G swap - and I notice the following (after logging out from X - and checking usage from VT-1) ---- # uname -srvp Linux 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 #1 Thu Nov 18 15:10:10 EST 2004 i686 # uptime 21:12:45 up 2 days, 10:43, 6 users, load average: 0.07, 0.42, 0.31 # free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1034568 813708 220860 0 246924 265168 -/+ buffers/cache: 301616 732952 # slabtop OBJS ACTIVE USE OBJ SIZE SLABS OBJ/SLAB CACHE SIZE NAME 258815 252624 97% 0.68K 51763 5 207052K ext3_inode_cache ---- (Don't remember the usage numbers for FC1) - perhaps this is where the memory usage is different between FC1/FC3? Satish