Comments on: Memory’s in the corners of my mind http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: samspade http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44833 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:14:14 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44833 “But there’s a side of me that says large chunks of available memory are not an excuse for overweight software. “

In an article I did a while back I used the analogy of buying a large garden simply to fill it up with junk.
http://computingminimalists.blogspot.com/2009/03/computing-minimalism-try-this-software.html

]]> By: Josh http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44824 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:12:45 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44824 Never mind… I just looked and it appears htop does in fact report actual memory used (ie: does not include cached/buffered memory usage).

]]> By: Josh http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44823 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:10:17 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44823 The actual free memory can be found using the “free” command. Run it with the “-m” switch to output values in megabytes.

Look at the “-/+ buffers/cache” line. This row shows actual memory usage that does *not* included memory used by caching (if I understand this correctly).

Here is s rather lengthy description of what’s going on here:

http://www.coldink.net/forums/showthread.php?t=951

]]> By: Patrick http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44822 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:19:33 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44822 Excess RAM does get used — for caching :)

]]> By: Gary http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44820 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:39:53 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44820 Wow 4KB, my Acorn Atom had 0.5KB for programs – now that was lean mean programs :)

]]> By: mulenmar http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44819 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:09:52 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/memorys-in-the-corners-of-my-mind/#comment-44819 Perhaps you should see what you can do in 4KB with an old Atari 2600, or better yet with a Fuzebox.

http://www.ladyada.net/make/fuzebox/

It’s designed as a completely open-source 8-bit game console. No such thing as bloated software there. ;)

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