Hi I installed mandriva 2009.0, but is all the time is freezing ,i did check the memory status by typing top in the terminal , and this how its look like : Tasks: 134 total, 1 running, 133 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.0%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 97.2%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2074688k total, 1820556k used, 254132k free, 86432k buffers Swap: 4095976k total, 0k used, 4095976k free, 1229748k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 5038 zinovsky 20 0 794m 119m 17m S 3 5.9 6:51.65 java 3204 root 20 0 143m 134m 27m S 1 6.6 48:27.19 Xgl 2983 root 20 0 3392 996 884 S 0 0.0 0:07.59 hald-addon-stor 4791 zinovsky 20 0 39680 26m 9536 S 0 1.3 0:15.91 net_applet 32452 zinovsky 20 0 68300 16m 12m S 0 0.8 0:00.28 konsole 32517 zinovsky 20 0 2236 1060 824 R 0 0.1 0:00.03 top 1 root 20 0 1708 560 496 S 0 0.0 0:00.66 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/0 4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.03 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 6 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.80 ksoftirqd/1 7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.11 events/0 8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.07 events/1 9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 51 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0 52 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1 53 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.13 kblockd/0 54 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.15 kblockd/1 56 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 57 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify 141 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod 184 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 185 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.24 pdflush 186 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 229 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 230 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1 385 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kpsmoused 405 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksuspend_usbd 406 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd 440 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.81 ata/0 441 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.77 ata/1 442 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux 446 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0 447 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1 448 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_2 449 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:02.63 scsi_eh_3 as you see below : Mem: 2074688k total, 1820556k used, 254132k free, what i have to do to make mandriva use less memory. thanks for your help
Linux is always using as much memory as possible to cache things - this makes it faster. That's nothing to worry about.
