Rigoberto de la Cruz <rigodcx@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
But, it begins to use the Swap space. Won't that slow down my machine
with unnecessary swaps? Here is the top usage after 12 hours:
07:44:52 up 12:26, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
63 processes: 61 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user 0.0% system 0.0% nice 0.0% iowait 100.0%
idle
Mem: 513852k av, 489292k used, 24560k free, 0k shrd,
188232k buff
380000k actv, 49384k in_d, 13292k in_c
Swap: 650552k av, 252k used, 650300k free
203808k cached
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Jeff Grossman (jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx)
