Re: increase in memory usage
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:38:58 +0100, Kordula Martin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm somewhat of a newbie, and have had Woody installed for about 2
> months now. I've been noticing something that raises a few questions -
> right after (re)booting my machine, I'll use 'top' to check the memory
> usage which is usaually something like 56xxx KB used, and then after 1
> or 2 days I use 'top' again to check and the memory usage has jumped up
> to about 230xxx KB used. This is without making any changes to the
> running system. I'm using the machine as a Web, FTP and email server,
> also Fetchmail running as a daemon, but there is not yet any real
> outside activity going on, and notice, I said no changes to the running
> system (from my side).
>
> What can be (gradually) consuming all of this memory? Can I expect this
> to increase to eventually use all of my 384 MB of RAM? Is there
> something I can do to periodically free, or refresh, my (un-used) RAM?
>
> All insight into this issue will be greatly appreciated!
>
>
Hi,
linux automatically uses your ram to cache hard disk accesses. You the
command free to display information about how your memore is used - to get
the free memory add the values "cache" and "buffers" to your "unused"
memory.
Greetings
Andre
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