On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:03:22PM +0200, Thomas De Groote said > Hey, > > I am running a quite standard Debian woody setup with the kernel 2.4.18 > that comes from the packages. The 2 HDs are in a RAID0, formatted as > ext3, with quota installed. Problem is that for some reason after about > 1 week the 1 Gb of RAM is completely filled and when looking in top or > ps I can't discover any process taking a lot of RAM. > > Does anyone have an idea as to how to find what is taking my memory > away? I could add another Gb, but I guess that will be taken in soon as > well... > > Sorry if this is a newbie-question answered elsewhere, I did a search > but couldn't find anything. Can you send us the output of "free -m"? Mine looks like this: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 250 238 11 0 0 53 -/+ buffers/cache: 185 65 Swap: 899 453 446 I only have 11MB free, but that's because my kernel has 53MB stashed away as disk cache. You want to look at the second row (-/+ buffers/cache:) to get a useful value for your free memory. When an app needs more memory, the kernel will flush the cache and a program can use the memory. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Mantis JUWTF LLNL UK MD4 brigand NSA pink noise Lon Horiuchi
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