On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:38:58 +0100, Kordula Martin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm somewhat of a newbie, and have had Woody installed for about 2 > months now. I've been noticing something that raises a few questions - > right after (re)booting my machine, I'll use 'top' to check the memory > usage which is usaually something like 56xxx KB used, and then after 1 > or 2 days I use 'top' again to check and the memory usage has jumped up > to about 230xxx KB used. This is without making any changes to the > running system. I'm using the machine as a Web, FTP and email server, > also Fetchmail running as a daemon, but there is not yet any real > outside activity going on, and notice, I said no changes to the running > system (from my side). > > What can be (gradually) consuming all of this memory? Can I expect this > to increase to eventually use all of my 384 MB of RAM? Is there > something I can do to periodically free, or refresh, my (un-used) RAM? > > All insight into this issue will be greatly appreciated! > > Hi,
linux automatically uses your ram to cache hard disk accesses. You the command free to display information about how your memore is used - to get the free memory add the values "cache" and "buffers" to your "unused" memory. Greetings Andre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
