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Re: memory eating

Xavier Cardil schrieb:
What I don't understand is why he physical memory is full. Do you meant that is it not full on reality ? 

free memory is bad memory
if there is no running application reclaiming the ram ( which is your case here ) , the kernel allocates the remaining memory to cache the data from the filesystem, so as to make the disk access faster
as soon as applications require more memory the kernel will allocate what they ask, and reduce the amount of memory used for the disk cache 

so what you see is perfectly normal

EK



Thanks.
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us <mailto:sethm@rollernet.us>> wrote: 

    Xavier Cardil wrote:
     > Here you go . .
     >
     > rocs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system--
    ----cpu----
     >  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs
    us sy
     > id wa
> 1 0 80 48960 57788 7580316 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 
     > 97  0
     >


    The memory is just going to the disk cache. The system will release it
    if something actually needs it. Otherwise, free memory gets used as
    cache. There doesn't appear to be any evidence it's swapping.

    ~Seth


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