Re: memory leaks

["M. Kirchhoff" <listless@0ubliette.org>]

Quoting Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>:

>     Also remember that when trying to diagnose the problem "no memory" is
> normal.  Linux (the kernel) will use as much memory as it can get away with
> for buffers and caching.  I'm hopping in at the middle here so you might
> have mentioned that you're aware of that but it bears repeating for any others
> following the conversation who is not aware.  It truly is one of the most
> FAQs when it comes to Linux.  
>
>As such when checking free use the figures on the 2nd line:
> 
> {grey@teleute:~/News/Pan} free
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        904592     854808      49784          0      27572     439384
> -/+ buffers/cache:     387852     516740
> Swap:        65520      58332       7188
> 

Just to make things completely clear (I'm a newb), you're saying that the actual
amount of RAM not being used by a specific process is 516740?  Thanks

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M. Kirchhoff