Re: Memory Leaks ?

[Eric Koldeweij <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is completely normal and Linux has been doing that since the dawn of 
time. The memory it doesn't need for applications it's using for 
caching. Don't worry, unless your swap file is starting to get filled up 
too. The memory which is used for caching is given up as soon as 
applications need it.
On the top right you see numbers marked "buff" and "cached". That is the 
amount of memory currently being used for caching.

Eric

Jason KRISCH wrote:

> Is anyone else seeing this:
>
> My laptop has 512MB RAM.  When I first boot into X, about 25% of my
> memory is being used - I can live with that.  Then I open some apps, say
> Mozilla, and I jump up to 59% memory utilization.  If I close all the
> running apps, my % of memory utilization NEVER decreases.  If I open up
> apps again, it just gets worse and "builds" from where it was.  Today
> the laptop was running for about 8 or 9 hours and before I shut it down
> I was pegged at 100% memory utilization with no apps running.  I used
> top and the system monitor to try to figure out what was using all of
> it, but nothing really stood out as using a lot.  I plan on doing some
> more digging and trying to figure out where / what the problem is - I
> just thought I would throw this out there to see if anyone else is
> experiencing similar issues.
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