<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Calvin Harrigan</b> <<a href="mailto:charriglists@bellsouth.net">charriglists@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
John Drescher wrote:<br>> The system is currently running the mythbackend and it was left in<br>> "Watch TV" mode. In looking at the output from "top", I'm seeing that<br>> all but ~6MB of the available 512MB of RAM is used, and swap has not
<br>> been touched at all..<br>><br>><br>> This is absolutly normal in linux. I have 4GB of memory on one of my<br>> myth boxes and I only have a few meg free. The reason for this is linux<br>> will actually use all of your memory for disk cache if no other
<br>> application needs it.<br>><br></blockquote></div><br>It is my main desktop at home. A dual processor Opteron 850 with 4GB of memory. I got the mem on ebay for $75 per 1 GB dimm.<br><br>John<br>