"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've > > been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel > > (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. > > > > Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on > > Saturday. Everything seemed fine to begin with---the 96MB was detected > > in BIOS and by the kernel; I had much less disk-thrashing in long > > Netscape sessions and so on. But .... > > > > If I leave the machine up overnight (as has been my habit) with nobody > > logged on and only cron jobs running, when I log on again in the > > morning, `top' tells me that almost all of the memory is in use > > This would necessarily indicate a problem. Linux uses any memory that
Typo alert! Should have been "would not". Sorry about that. Gary
