Re: Memory usage on debian
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:30:18 +0100, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
> My system use about 95% of my 512 mb ram, but ps aux and top doesent
> show which process that eats all the memory. Can anyone figure out what
> to do this could be a kernel issue or something? I use kernel
> 2.4.21-pre1
As far as I know Linux in general tries to use a lot of your ram to
achieve best performance. It buffers data which have already been read
from your hdd, for the case that these data are requested again.
I hope it's not non-sense I'm writing, please correct if something is
wrong.
HTH
Charlie
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