Re: Increasing Memory Usage

Chris Chabot <chabotc@xxxxxxxxx> · Sun, 11 May 2003 18:51:03 +0200

Ps, a better way to check 'actual' memory usage is with 'free', it will
tell you what your usage is (so without counting buffers & cache).
That number will still include some libraries that are kept in memory
and inode cache's, but the number is a whole lot closer to the actual
'free memory' 

Rigoberto de la Cruz wrote:

  --- Jeff Grossman <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    I have
noticed that the memory usage keeps going up.  I am
using this machine
as a server so it never shutdowns, and reboots very
rarely.  When I do
reboot it, it is using about 100M of memory out of
512M.  This is
according to TOP.  Currently the machine has been up
for 21 minutes
and the memory usage is already at 147M.  How can I
figure out what is
taking the memory?

linux uses memory as cache. just don't worry about it
unless you are having slowdowns. You don't have to
worry about it because the memory is going to be freed
when you need it.

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