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Re: Weird Memory Leak



Aaaha.
just noticed that "cached" field on the right when you run top.
"used" memory minus "cached" does make a number I was longing to see.

can anyone explain what caching means in a nutshell?


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On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Oren Shomron wrote:

> 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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