Well - upon more investigation I found this to be in the debian bug report logs - #12245. This report talks about bogus +/- buffers free readings. Sorry about the posts - I guess I should have dug a little further. Still doesn't explain my out of memory errors - hmmm.
Robert Robert Zeches wrote: > Here's more info. If I stop the apache server everything seems to be > normal: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 127924 75576 52348 11560 51012 > -/+ buffers: 24564 1336 > Swap: 128484 0 128484 11732 > > but if I start it again I get the same output as before. Thanks again. > > Robert > > Robert Zeches wrote: > > > I hope someone can help me with this - I'm not a Debian guru and I > > didn't find anything in the list archives that was relevant to this. > > Here goes: If I run free, I notice that after awhile the numbers on the > > buffers line show upwards of 4GB of memory. If I let this stay this way > > eventually things start "running out of memory" specifiaclly apache, > > sendmail, and the telnet and ftp daemons - so I am forced to reboot the > > system about every four hours. Does anyone have any insight into this? > > Here's the output of free: > > > > total used free shared buffers > > cached > > Mem: 127924 83652 44272 40796 49156 > > -/+ buffers: 34496 4189420 > > Swap: 128484 0 128484 11764 > > > > Thanks for any help you can provide. I can give more info if needed. > > > > Robert > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > "THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET" > > -Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > "THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET" > -Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole -- ---------------------------------------------------------- "THE INTERNET IS A GREAT WAY TO GET ON THE NET" -Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
