On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: > In my cynical opinion, I think this is no accident. The most lightweight distros WANT you to see > how much RAM is in use. antiX Linux looks good when it shows that it's only using something > like 40 MB at idle. The heavyweight distros don't want you to see how much RAM is in use > because it would make them look grossly inefficient. It doesn't look good if the OS needs 500 MB > of RAM just to idle and 2+ GB of RAM to do actual work. Why would you not want your RAM to be used? If it's not being used actively, it's a waste of money and resources. I get upset if I'm not seeing my linux systems' RAM usage in the 85-95% range consistently. What doesn't get used for active processes gets used for read cache, which is a good thing(tm).