On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 02:18:35AM -0600, Jor-el wrote:
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| In that case it sounds to me like there is a genuine problem on my
| system. Even if the swap is cached in RAM, this doesnt explain the stats
| reported by top : the 8M of swap + the total of the RSS column doesnt come
| close to the 229M that is reported as being used. Are there any memory
| leak issues being reported with the 2.4.16 kernel?
Use 'free -m' instead of top, and take a look at the "cached" and
"buffers" columns. You need to subtract those from the "used" column
to see how much memory is actually being used. If you have memory
that isn't being used, and you read or write a file, linux will cache
that data in the unused memory so that in the event that you try to
read that data again soon it is already in memory and can avoid the
time it takes to read it from disk. As you run programs that want the
memory the kernel will flush out those buffers and cache and give the
memory to the programs.
-D
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