Geoff Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> The Problem: When I first boot, top reveals 16 Meg of ram used.
>
> This slowly increases, and after a couple of days, this up to 62 Meg!
Do you have a 64 MB machine? Sounds normal to me.
My machine shows this output from "free":
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 63276 59560 3716 15084 3916 19916
-/+ buffers/cache: 35728 27548
Swap: 130748 12480 118268
> Why? Does Linux have a memory leak?
As you can see, I have 59 MB of memory "used". Does that mean my kernel
has leaked memory all over the place? No. It means that Linux is
keeping some things still "buffered" in memory, just in case I ever need
it. If memory needs to be allocated for some other task, the buffered
memory can be freed in an instant, so it is not really causing a
problem. But it is not "free" in the sense that there is nothing useful
in it. The memory is used, but most of it is still available for other
use.
Relax. :)
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