buffers getting way out of control

[Robert Zeches <robert@soundz.com>]

I hope someone can help me with this - I'm not a Debian guru and I
didn't find anything in the list archives that was relevant to this.
Here goes:  If I run free, I notice that after awhile the numbers on the
buffers line show upwards of 4GB of memory.  If I let this stay this way
eventually things start "running out of memory" specifiaclly apache,
sendmail, and the telnet and ftp daemons - so I am forced to reboot the
system about every four hours.  Does anyone have any insight into this?
Here's the output of free:


             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        127924      83652      44272      40796      49156
-/+ buffers:            34496    4189420
Swap:       128484          0     128484      11764


Thanks for any help you can provide.  I can give more info if needed.

Robert



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