Re: more on memory problem

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

If there were a FAQ for this list (is there?), this would be the first
question in it.

Ken Weingold wrote:
> 
> what happens is that applications
> don't release memory when they are done.

Ken Weingold also wrote:
>   6:13pm  up 20 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states:  0.1% user,  0.1% system,  0.0% nice, 99.6% idle
> Mem:  517500K av,  49412K used, 468088K free,  14644K shrd,  22516K buff
                                                              
^^^^^^^^^^^
There's your 'free' memory. Linux uses memory not being used elsewhere
as disk cache. It'll be freed when it's needed for program space.

Not that you'd need it with 512Mb total system memory ;)


Matthew