>It up to the OS to mark the freed areas as free or use it as a >filesystem buffer or whatever buffer, as long as the memory isn't needed >by applications.
Thanks for the update.Actually when I do top -p on the process id I do see memory consumed by Apache is very less but over the time when I do free -m the RAM gets reduced.I wonder can be this case happen free -m is 0 and the machine will crash or something....I was thinking may be the Apache was eating up the RAM.Please let me know your views on this. Regards -A On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Robert Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Arnab Ganguly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> In the particular box only Apache is running no other application > >> process is > >>> running.Also one more observation was when the Apache is stopped the > >> free -m > >>> doesn't result to the original memory restore.We have to reboot the > box > >> to > >>> restore the original RAM. > > It up to the OS to mark the freed areas as free or use it as a > filesystem buffer or whatever buffer, as long as the memory isn't needed > by applications. > > > with kind regards, > > Robert Schulze >
