Hi, ext Thomas Leavitt wrote: > I will note, however, and I'm not entirely sure why, that with no > applications running (other than the notice bar stuff at the top), my > system consumes 60 megs of memory... I just got a new 2 gb MMC card, so > I've enabled 64 mb of virtual memory (I had 24 before, on the 64 meg > card, and I regularly ran it to 90% of total memory used). It doesn't > seem reasonable to me that the OS would consume all available memory and > leave nothing for applications, but I don't know if I've "customized" > the thing enough that the memory usage profile is anomalous. How do you measure that it consumes 60 MB of memory? (without swap, you should count it from /proc/meminfo: MemTotal-MemFree-Buffers-Cached) What top & ps say to consume most memory? What extra processes (ssh etc) you have running and do you have any (extra) Desktop applets running? - Eero
