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.
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