From: Alan Cox (iiitac@swan.pyr)
Date: 06/29/93 

From: iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox)
Subject: Re: Memory Usage of Linux/X11
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 09:09:35 GMT

This ought to be an FAQ sort of question

1. Free memory is misleading. Linux doesn't like free memory it tries
to turn it all into disk cache. A better guide too free memory is something
like Freemem+disk_cache-about 200K.
2. On a 16Mb machine everything tends to stay loaded up even startup code
that a smaller machine would have discarded with virtually no performance
hit.

Alan