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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