OpenSuSe 11.1 KDE 3.5 RAM Usage

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Hi,

I’m pretty new when it comes to using Linux, so I’m unsure if this is usual behaviour or not. When I do top in konsole this is what I see:

top - 12:16:04 up 1:10, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.18, 0.17
Tasks: 128 total, 2 running, 126 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.4%id, 1.2%wa, 0.7%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 3343280k total, 3227072k used, 116208k free, 81596k buffers
Swap: 2104472k total, 0k used, 2104472k free, 1561552k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2888 root 20 0 415m 77m 18m S 3 2.4 3:56.28 Xorg
10406 mike 20 0 602m 235m 27m S 1 7.2 2:02.66 firefox
1 root 20 0 1064 388 324 S 0 0.0 0:00.76 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 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.44 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 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1
7 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.26 events/0
8 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.26 events/1
9 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper
10 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/0
11 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kintegrityd/1
12 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.10 kblockd/0
13 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1
14 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
15 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpi_notify

Is that healthy or should my RAM usage be much lower?

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As has been said/explained before, Most *nixes will use as much ram as needed before even thinking about using swap. So, it’s nothing to really worry about.And, most of that will be as cache

Andy

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As Andy mentioned, ram will be used as it is needed…most of the time it is used as cache.
So there is nothing to worry about ram usage.

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Thanks guys, makes me feel better, I’ve spent 8 hours getting this install to where I wanted it and I was scared I’d have to start again (which would be the fourth OS install in 2 days :frowning: )

I originally installed KDE 4.1 but I’ve installed KDE3.5 and removed KDE4, the bluetooth app no longer seems to recognise my adapter, anyone got a fix for that too?