On Thursday 23 January 2003 01:58 am, Anders Lind wrote:
> Hello friends,
>
> I am experiencing some problem with my Mandrake box at work, I am using
> XFCE. When I rebooted 1,5 hour ago it was about 80 MB free Memory and no
> swap used. This was after I have started Sylpheed only. Now 1,5 hour later
> I have started and closed KNode down, and now I have only 4 MB free and
> over 20 MB of swap in use. Could somebody tell me if there is a
> memoryleakage known in 8.2?
>
> I am on the verge on installing FreeBSD on this machine anyway, but this
> made the transitiondecision easier
>
> Best Regards,
> Anders
It is not unusual at all to see lots of memory taken by any modern distro
It is in fact a GOOD thing, unused memory is wasted memory
That does not indicate a memory leak at all.
free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257016 253200 3816 0 13980 95260
-/+ buffers/cache: 143960 113056
Swap: 401584 155980 245604
[tester@ibm333 eggdrop]$
When you actually figure out that statement, I have about 154M free or 61.6%.
Just that the system routinely uses that to improve system speed. It is
still available on request to programs, reducing tha amount of buffers or
cache. This is why linux gets faster when you add memory.
Civileme
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