On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory (1GB) 
> is 
> used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally memory usage 
> is much lower.
> 
> I killed most processes but memory usage remains high.
> 
> Summing the VSZ values of the ps aux output gives about 34MB. top reports 
> 316MB active memory.
> 
> Where did my memory go? Are there any tools for debugging this?

This is a FAQ.  "free memory is wasted memory".

Kris
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