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faco

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From: Santiago de Chile

Registered: 2006-08-09

Posts: 34

Every time I upgrade packages, system uses more RAM

Hello

As the topic says, Since my last system update, after a normal boot, the system consume about 60 to 70 MB of ram on buffered, and more that 100 at the first line when I run "free" command, against the half part used before.

Is it normally? kernel load more modules? or, new modules are bigger than before? because I don´t have new hardware on my tower?

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pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

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Re: Every time I upgrade packages, system uses more RAM

You post is not all that clear to me....

However, when you run free it shows all the ram that is being used by applications and that are being cached. If you look at htop it will show you how much memory is being used by applications and programs.

You can get htop form extra. You could find the value via /proc/meminfo and do (MemTotal - MemFree) - (Buffers - Cached) = Total Memory in use by applications. If you don't understand this just use htop

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

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Re: Every time I upgrade packages, system uses more RAM

I think phrakture said it best in this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60652

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