Post the output of this command:
This is what my top says:
Code:
top - 06:12:29 up 8:20, 1 user, load average: 0.39, 0.29, 0.27
Tasks: 105 total, 1 running, 104 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 8.0%us, 1.4%sy, 0.1%ni, 87.2%id, 3.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 6125192k total, 6063084k used, 62108k free, 70152k buffers
Swap: 12699640k total, 0k used, 12699640k free, 4939140k cached
free -m:
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charles@thor:~$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 5981 5920 60 0 68 4823
-/+ buffers/cache: 1029 4952
Swap: 12401 0 12401
The way Linux manages memory is a bit different then the way Windows does. It tends to cache all available RAM and use it only when needed. Hence why it says that I've got about 5GB of memory "cached."
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