Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2002 20:36:13 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Where's all my memory going? |
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> > However, over time, (30-45 minutes), more and more memory seems to just > > disappear from the system until it looks like this, (note that swap is > > hardly ever touched): > > I don't see any disappearing memory. Remember that Linux will > intentionally keep memory filled with cache pages when it is possible.
Matt's system seems to go from 900 MB free to about 300 MB (free + cache).
I doubt qmail would eat 600 MB of RAM (it might, I just doubt it) so I'm curious where the RAM is going.
Matt, do you see any suspiciously high numbers in /proc/slabinfo ?
regards,
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