I never knew about the "free" command. But, I still don't understand
how the system can start only using about 100M and now it is using
almost all of the built in memory. And starting to use swap space.
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 513852 488336 25516 0 137064
227048
-/+ buffers/cache: 124224 389628
Swap: 650552 6708 643844
Thanks,
Jeff
Chris Chabot <chabotc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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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