Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Memory Leaking. Help! | Date | Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:09:07 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > What does ps -aux imply has all the memory ? > Top at 9am showed 3.2GB of availabe memory. > Top at 10am showed 2.3Gb of available memory
That seems reasonable. The kernel knows free memory is waste. Until it has used all the available memory why does it need to worry about freeing caches ?
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