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From: Vu Vuong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, December 07, 2000 5:16 PM
Subject: Memory Leak
>Hi,
> Could someone help me diagnose my system. I use 'top' to monitor the
>system activities. As I watch, the memory used increases. I don't know
>what is causing it. Earlier this week it was at 130MB free, now it's at
>62MB free. I used 'vmstat 1' to see if there were any large file swapping
>involve, but could not see it. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank
>you.
>
Take a look at the output of top again. Do you see how much memory is being
shared and used for disk buffers? Subtract those out from the amount shown
used and you get the real amount of memory your programs are using. The
buffers and share bits will shrink if and when a program needs the RAM.
It's the normal behavior for linux. My system shows 192Megs in use of
256Megs, but 154Megs is just buffers. Leaving only 38Megs in use by
programs. If you start using lots of swap, and you don't see a high buffers
total, then you should worry. Hope this helps.
Jeff Hogg
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