[plug] Question about memory usage

[Bret Busby]

Now that my system is not running XWindows,  I have run top, to check 
on the system.

In the memory line, it shows:
Mem: 762936k total
      536004k used
      226932k free
      112788k buffers

Or, those were the figures while I was writing this. The amount consumed 
by the buffers keeps increasing, as does the amount used. While I wrote 
that sentence, the buffers usage went up to 112888, and is now 112940.

Is the system supposed to do this, and, to use so much memory, when it 
is not running any GUI?

I am thinking that it is perhaps the system, and, not Firefox, that 
keeps increasingly consuming memory, until it runs out of memory and the 
system crashes.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
  you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
   Chapter 28 of
   "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
   A Trilogy In Four Parts",
   written by Douglas Adams,
   published by Pan Books, 1992

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