tom patton wkdiyvomicronetcom fri 20080208 0802 0500 aaron kulkis wrote tero pesonen wrote wednesday 06 february 2008 sloan wrote yes linux uses ram buffers program needs ram kernel give needs yes normal linux still havent started swapping theres reason memory manager section kernel free buffers used kmail reads even writes whether desirable behavior kmail different question entirely would say yes would say personally like program allow force clearing memory disk caches without shutting app example seamonkey butif still remained memory time came beagle index new batch email would good thing green crowd since clocking ram chips keep memory alivewhy waste tiny bit energy save ram information tom nm tue 05 aug 2008 175822 0700 opensuse memory leakage normal huge amount usage ram memory 2gb free 121 mb