Re: memories
"Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov> writes:
> <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu> writes:
> > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've
> > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel
> > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS.
> >
> > Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on
> > Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected
> > in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long
> > Netscape sessions and so on. But ....
> >
> > If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody
> > logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the
> > morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use
>
> This would necessarily indicate a problem. Linux uses any memory that
Typo alert! Should have been "would not". Sorry about that.
Gary
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