Why is it that my memory usage is going up and up, and shutting down the two
major consumers of memory (Apache/mod_perl and MySQL) don't reclaim that
memory?
I am running RedHat 6, with Apache 1.3.9, mod_perl 1.21, and MySQL 3.23a.
I restarted my web server a week ago, at which stage the running program
were consuming about 200 meg of the available 1 Gig.
I have stopped and started (not -HUP) Apache/mod_perl a few times this week,
and stopped and started mysql a few times.
Now my system is using 600 meg for the same processes, that is AFTER the
buffers and cache have been removed.
Current memory usage :
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 971648 940672 30976 102836 199800 149288
-/+ buffers/cache: 591584 380064
Swap: 136512 1592 134920
Any ideas how I can reclaim this vanished memory without rebooting the
system?
Thanks
Clint
