High Memory Usage? Is this normal? 380megs used while idle? #2869

Hi, im running the release "version" : 80300, compiled from source from github on a ubuntu 12.04.x server

After all the data was downloaded the memory usage sits at around 380megs .. any reason this is so high w/o anything going on yet.. ?

I also posted this question on the bitcoin forms with screen shots..

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=265524

That's quite normal, unfortunately.

Note that it's not exactly "idle" - the reference client implements a full validation node, so it is verifying the correctness of every transaction and block it sees, which needs quite some data readily-accessible in memory to do efficiently.

Yes, high memory usage is normal, see also #2353