I started using Linux again a couple of months ago. After I installed
Mandrake /noticed that if my computer sat idle over night the memory
usage went up from 100 megs to 2-300 megs ( I have 1 gig of ram, so no
biggie). I switched to Gentoo and have noticed the samething. After
watching this since then I have noticed that when my system is under a
load, ie large updates and such the "lost" memory is reclaimed. "Normal
memory usage" runs around 320 megs or so, after a large update 7
packages or more the memory used dropped down to 155 megs.
My question is: is this typical?
It is not causeing any issues with my computer. I just puzzles the snot
out of me why this is happening.
Thanks.
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