On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:35, Jack Coates wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 01:30, elPunishar wrote:
> > hi everybody,
> >
> > i noticed that my 1 gig of ram is getting filled up real quick, which may be
> > okay since i'm running a lot of programs.
> > BUT it doesn't come down again even when i close the programs... memory use
> > just grows and grows (slow but steady), then beginns to fill up the swap
> > space...
>
> memory at 80% full is normal disk caching, and Windows does it too (they
> just don't report it). Growing usage and using swap may not be normal
> though. Try running top and pressing M to sort by memory usage, then
> watch it. You may have an app leaking memory.
> ...
> --
> Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
Curious, I have 512M ram and 256M swap - top shows I'm using 198M of mem
and none of my swap - I've been running my computer all morning and I've
got a few apps open. Why would 80% of 1G of memory be normal?
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