On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:22, Eduardo A. dela Rosa wrote: > Hi, > > After days of work, without rebooting my box, it suddenly slowed > down. My filesystem is just > 41% of the total size that my hard disk can hold. I executed "free" to > check on the available > memory resources. I found the following information: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] xxx]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 505220 428728 76492 0 16860 195208 > -/+ buffers/cache: 216660 288560 > Swap: 1052248 194312 857936 > Well, I don't really want to reboot my box. Is there a way that I > could refresh (or probably > release the unused) resources of my box? After all, some of my > previously used > applications (eclipse, jboss, and mysql) have been shutdown for quite > a long while now. >
You can turn off and on the swap if you want, but I dont think there is any tool to release main memory. It is loaded because some process might need what is in ther (i.e. if you restart eclipse, its library functions are very likely to be already there, if not swapped) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
