On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Serge Pluess wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I have installed RH 5.0 on a 233 Pentium MMX with 80MB of RAM. For the
> moment I'm only running the bind (4.9.6-REL) that came with RH5.0. When I
> boot the machine it shows me that approx. 16MB are being used.
> After a short period (1-4 hours) it will show me that 60MB being used, but
> named shows only about 6MB of usage.
This is not a memory leak. Unless you recently rebooted, you should only
have a few megs of RAM free regardless of how much RAM you have or
what you are running.
The reason is that Linux always uses all the memory it can to keep
copies of files and such in memory. This speeds up your computer
significantly. If that memory is needed for a program, it will be
freed.
> What is using up all the 60MB of RAM? After another period of time bind
> will not be running anymore with no core dump and no error message in any
> logfile.
This, is a seperate issue... I can't help you here...
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