Re: Memory usage on debian

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Nils-Erik Svangård" <nisse@student.luth.se> writes:
> 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?

Linux uses unused memory for a disk cache. This is dynamic and so if
you start a process that needs the memory the kernel will shrink the
disk cache. Use free (/usr/bin/free) to see how much disk cache is
allocated.

Gary