I forget to mention something else in top that may confuse you: memory usage. To get a semi-accurate image of how much memory you have free add the 'cached' amount to your mem free, and there you have it, Linux isn't really using that much memory for *applications*. Cached stuff drops immediately for application memory, but Linux is smart and uses unused memory for caching things to make them faster.
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