Slowly all my memory gets used up by fedora (2 GB)

Brian Porter brian at miatar.org
Wed Apr 11 11:18:41 UTC 2007


Mark wrote:
> thanx for the reply.
> i just wanted to know for sure.
>
> 2007/4/10, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:cannewilson at googlemail.com>>:
>
>     On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Mark wrote:
>     > Hey,
>     >
>     > i`ve had this problem for a while (since FC5 if `im right) and
>     slowly all
>     > my memory gets used up.
>     > i did the top command but that doesn`t show anything unusual
>     besides that
>     > all my memory is used.
>     > i`m using Gnome.
>     >
>     > this is the top of top:
>     >
>     > top - 23:00:23 up  3:37,  3 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.08
>     > Tasks: 118 total,   1 running, 116 sleeping,   1 stopped,   0
>     zombie
>     > Cpu(s): 50.0%us,
>     50.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
>     > 0.0%st
>     > Mem:   2038076k total,  1939184k used,    98892k free,   430052k
>     buffers
>     > Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   941860k
>     cached
>     >
>     > The swap file isn`t being used.. but still the memory is filled
>     up. in this
>     > case i still have 98MB left but i`ve seen less.
>     > is this a bug?
>     > or is this the memory management of linux?
>     >
>     >
>
>     The latter.  You've paid for it, so you use it :-)  Linux doesn't
>     handle
>     memory in the same way as windows does.  It uses all it can get, just
>     releasing whatever it needs to, whenever it needs to.  The time to
>     worry is
>     when your swap is also used up :-)
>
>     I've just been running some heavy processing work, and my swap had
>     220MB used.
>     Most of the time it isn't used at all.  IOW, my box works well for
>     ordinary
>     work, but is somewhat underspecified for the heavier processing.
>
>     Anne
>
>
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Use the command free to see how much memory is used as cache and how 
much is actually in use by processes.

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-Brian
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