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Re: Weird Memory Leak
Linux may be caching your memory, so that it may appear that it is being
used but
in reality it is free for use. Nothing to worry about. Check the free output
again.
- Oren
> Hi.I have a stock RH6.0 machine here, wit2.2.12 kernel
> Other than what is packaged on the RH6 CD, I have a new windowmaker, a
> netscape 4.7 and vmware running on it.
> When I power on the machine into runlevel 1 I see 5MB of memory being
> used. That is more or less how it should be.
> I go into RL5, X and kdm (no WM yet), and see 30Megs in use.
> Here comes the happy part. I return the machine to RL1, have nothing
> running (top shows init, about 5 logging procs taking zilch memory,it's
> shell and itself)but for some reason 22Megs are eaten up by something.
> I needed to reboot the machine yesterday because this memory leakreached
> 80Megs is this same way. nothing shows up. I even dumped all kernel
> modules and such. anyone have a clue what this could be?TIAMiki
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