--- "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <tedgoodridgejr@acm.org> wrote:
> Forgive me for my ignorance, but what would cause you to use the full
> 1.5 
> Gig ram?  The only time I have ever had RAM issues is with Windows XP
> + 
> Photoshop/Poser (XP is a RAM hog, but I think it is much faster than 
> previous versions, so are those graphics apps) and I start using the 
> pagefile/virtual memory after maxing my 512meg ram.
> 
> In linux, what would cause your system to grab that much RAM?

How about database cache for sort, queries, etc.

Thomas

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