[rhn-users] Horrendous Memory Leak???

[Eric Eisenhart]

Kenneth Sarno wrote:
> If I boot it up and just let it sit there for a day or two, then log in 
> to a gnome desktop, the system monitor shows 990MB of memory used plus a 
> couple of hundred MB of swap used too. This is with no users ever having 

Open a terminal and run "free -m" instead.  The system monitor is 
counting memory used for buffers and cache as "used".  The free command 
will show you how much of that is buffers and cache.

When there's unused memory on a Linux system, the kernel will use it to 
cache the contents of disk (so that subsequent reads of the same data 
are much faster).  Memory used for buffers or cache is quickly converted 
into memory available for processes to run in when more memory is needed.
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