Hello,
I have installed red hat 9.0 on my laptop (a Pentium 4 2400 with 512M of RAM).
Periodically, I run of the command "free" or "top" and it shows that the
amount of the used memory grows gradually until 512M without any reason (I'm not working with anything)!
When I try to launch a
Java IDE (intellij, for example), linux starts to use the swap memory and even I kill the IDE, the memory usage remains at big level.
Looking in the "Start" men�, I found an application called "KSim" which is another kind of system monitor. It shows more confortable levels about used memory (150 - 250 M).
Anyone knows the reason of this? What's the real usage of the memory??
Thanks in advance...