[newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server.  As time passes the available memory steadily goes down.  For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free memory.  Now KDE System Guard tells me it has ~50 MB of free

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 11 November 2004 12:03 pm, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; I've got a Mandrake 9.2 box that I run 24/7 as a http/pop3/ftp server.  As time passes the available memory steadily goes down.  For example: I rebooted it yesterday morning and KDE System Guard told me it had ~170 MB of free

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Q.H. Wang
Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs. I like this one. Some times ago I bought a 512 MB memory chip for my

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote: Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns or hangs. I like this one. Some

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 06:07:23 +1100 Stephen Kühn disseminated the following: Linux does not like idle memory, so when it sees some free it uses it, but if it is needed for another app it will free it up for the higher priority app. It is not a problem and should cause no slowdowns

Re: [newbie] Memory filling up on 9.2?

2004-11-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 11 Nov 2004 19:07, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 06:19, Q.H. Wang wrote: Yeah - some folks try to assign their understanding of how *nix uses it's memory to that of how MSDOS/MS Windows uses it's memory - two different dogs altogether. I remember being entirely