Re: memory problem
under top, look at how much of that memory is marked as cached. Linux
caches filesystem accesses in memory to speed up access for commonly
requested files. This is normal, and if some actual process needs memory,
the kernel will give up some of its cache space.
-casey
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Ken Weingold wrote:
> I have played around and it seems to be more of an issue with the
> system itself. I am running 2.2r2 with kernel 2.2.18. This is a
> failrly newly installed system, and what happens is that applications
> don't release memory when they are done. I thought it was specific to
> Webtrends Enterprise Reporting Server, which this server was built
> for, but it seems to be anything. I rebooted the machine and watched
> top. There was about 20 megs of RAM used. I ran in another shell
> 'updatedb' since I knew it wasn't a small quick thing. I watched
> memory usage go up to almost 50 megs. When it finished, the memory
> usage stayed the same, give or take a couple of megs. It is now
> sitting steady at 48224K.
>
> Why would this be? Thanks for any insight.
>
>
> -Ken
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