It's beacuse of the Linux memory management. Almost all your RAM is filled
up with cache files. When a process needs more memory, Linux simply frees
what is needed by cleaning up some of that cache.
At work, I run pretty much the same services, plus an ICQ server (Iserverd,
wich uses PostgreSQL
Brad
aaahhh... now ~that~ makes sense.. I use the free command all the time
but never really understood what the buffers line was all about..
thanks for the explanation :)
Cheers
Craig
Sites, Brad wrote:
Kelerion wrote:
Hi guys.. hoping someone can explain something to me here..
I have ju
I just went through the exact same issue. I used my System Monitor program
via my start menu -> System Tools(I think thats the path) to examine what
services were munching up memory. Im guessing you have gnome installed?
Try using the System Monitor Program to see what your Memory consumption is
Kelerion wrote:
> Hi guys.. hoping someone can explain something to me here..
>
> I have just upgraded my RH9 box to 1Gb DDR.. I thought, rather
> presumptuously that this might give me a little more space to play
> with memory wise.. but after looking through 'top' I get the
> following:
>
>
>
> Hi there
>
> On our Linux Server (OS RedHat 7.3) memory usage is increasing up to 440MB
> (available RAM capacity 512MB). Usually it should not be any higher than
> 50MB. We checked all running processes and could not find a process using
> extremely much memory. As well a reboot has not helped t
LINUX uses up memory for buffers and cache, but will
release that memory for programs if needed.
What do free and/or vmstat tell you?
Remember, the values in the -/+ buffers/cache: can be
available.
In my experience, you are only low on memory if you are
actually seeing swap us
Hi,
Oh yeah, I also have this behaviour. I even bought more RAM because of that
:-).
The process in cause was one of the children of the X process. But I don't
think it really consumme all this memory. It looks for me more as a shared
memory pool.
Does anybody here has more information?
Cyr
Shaju Peter said:
> Hello everybody
> I have observed that after exiting for xwindows
> to shell prompt tthe memory usage observed by
> using top is very high but after running some
> executables on shell prompt it was immediatly comming
> down
> does any valid reason behind this?
disk cache.
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alex Tabony wrote:
> I have a redhat 7 machine with 256mb ram running Samba for file/print
> serving and mail services for 30 windows clients. I have been observing the
> memory usage on the machine and I am a bit confused.
>
[ship]
>
> The weird thing, is that later on today
Thanks to all who replied to this problem. It set my mind at ease... till
today.
To recap I asked why my redhat 7 (duron 700, 256 mb ram) machine was using
so much of its memory on buffers even when it was idle. Today as I have
gotten to a habit of doing, I did a free -t, I got something just
> The weird thing, is that later on today when no one is on the system, free
> will give me almost the exact same numbers. Why are not the buffers and
> cache getting flushed (right word?). I've been watching the memory usage
> for the last few days and it stays about the same no matter how the sy
-Original Message-
From: Alex Tabony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:14 PM
Subject: Memory usage / management
>I have a redhat 7 machine with 256mb ram running Samba for file/print
>serving and mail services for 30 window
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