On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 15:44, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake matt zagrabelny: > > hi, > > > > after boot my system runs out of memory in ~36-48 hours. > > > > i have rebooted my machine and let it sit there, only logging into a > > virtual console to run top. it still runs out of memory with no other > > "user" applications running than top. > > What do you mean by 'runs out of memory'? Do you get messages from the > OOM killer as it slays processes in an attempt to free memory? If not, > I would submit that you are not running out of memory. Linux will use > all available free memory for cache and buffers, but this does not mean > that it is "out of memory", since the memory used by cache and buffers > can (and will) be reclaimed by the kernel as it is needed.
yes, processes are routinely killed to free memory. but never-the-less, why would memory keep being allocated after boot? i would think that total allocated would stabalize somewhat. -matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
