Guest coldascold Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 On my Netserver I have 64MB and never have a problem althrough it dosent ever run in graphical mode but takes alot of hacking from LAN,WWW,CVS, SCSI storage backup system; total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 62308 56544 5764 0 7336 11924 -/+ buffers/cache: 37284 25024 Swap: 409576 36340 373236 Also on standard pc's I have never found a reason for lots of ram with linux However I can see the need for ram with MS DX Games as they suck you hard disk dry just to load the API up alll be it a larger video card helps only fractionaly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 You should also look at the chips you have now and how many slots you have. E.g. Let's say you have 2 slots and both have a 64Meg chip. In this case, you shoudl probably replace them both with 256 or a 256 and a 128. I would recommend 384 (256+128) at minimum to mostly avoid swapping.. But with prices so cheap, consider at a 256 + 256 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted February 8, 2003 Report Share Posted February 8, 2003 When you run free -m, you get physical ram free, buffers, and swap. Could someone explain what the buffers line is for? Is it things that are using ram but can be removed if needed? Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepse Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 What I found out is that when I added a DVD player with 256 megs of ram the video was a little skittish. So, I doubled the ram to 512 and the DVD plays perfect. As for when I was running just the 256 I didn't noticed a drag on the system so I never thought too much about needing more. Altho I do have this thing for maxing out a mobo. I just looked at my -m and it shows a total mem of 504; used 241; free 262. Swap: total 243; used 0; free 243. As far as I know this seems good. At this point I am on the 'net with Mozilla 1.1 and nothing else happening (that I am aware of). Later. Pepse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Andrew: man free would have revealed the following to you: SYNOPSIS free [-b | -k | -m] [-o] [-s delay ] [-t] [-V] DESCRIPTION free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap mem- ory in the system, as well as the shared memory and buffers used by the kernel. So the shared mem and buffers are kernel related occupied memory. Ah the power of 'man' ;) BTW try xman to get to know some commands... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qnr Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 503 468 34 0 117 158 -/+ buffers/cache: 192 310 Swap: 2028 98 1929 Total: 2531 566 1964 I have 512mb RAM, and 2G swap. Most of the time I don't need 2G of course, but I use a source based distro, and do some extremely heavy video editing. In my experience, the more memory the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manly Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 So the shared mem and buffers are kernel related occupied memory. That makes more sense than the man page. :-) What I'm confused about is how buffers relate to determining how much memory is actually free. I remember reading in a HOW-TO doc to "ignore buffers, because they don't matter". So, are buffers like a system heap? Right now, free -m shows 111Mb of buffers used. I can't imagine the kernel taking that much RAM by itself. What am I missing? Thanks, Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted February 17, 2003 Report Share Posted February 17, 2003 i reckon the more the better .... 786Mb ram, with 500Mb swap paul@trinity paul $ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 774476 770040 4436 0 35316 618436 -/+ buffers/cache: 116288 658188 Swap: 498004 312 497692 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Look up Texstar's dowload site at http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distribut...drake/9.0/rpms/ and download the realttime monitor gkrellm and its related files and watch your memory, CPU and swap space in real time. This should help you make up your mind. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 20, 2003 Report Share Posted February 20, 2003 'urpmi gkrellm' should also do the trick no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Well.. depending on whether you installed texstar's urpmi repository in your urpmi database or not. Texstar's gkrellm is version 2.x while the ones in the mandrake disks are version 1.x. Gkrellm is so useful, it's almost like a wallpaper in my desktop :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 I have 2 gig on mine and I just love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest metz2000 Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 [metz@localhost metz]$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 159712 155096 4616 0 3468 55568 -/+ buffers/cache: 96060 63652 Swap: 253976 9688 244288 I have 4 Mozilla windows, one konsole, The GIMP, Konqueror (file browsing), KDE Help Centre, and KMail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest metz2000 Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 I have 2 gig on mine and I just love it Can we have a look at your 'free' please.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted February 24, 2003 Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 How do I do that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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