On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Jason Ball wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a little problem on one server, in that the amount of memory
> allocated to buffers (ie - the buff value in top) continuously, and
> gradually increases until the system starts to swap to death.
This memory is generally managed by the kernel for buffering data related
to block i/o (e.g. disk).
It should't run the system out of memory.
>
> Anybody have any ideas how to tie down the process/resource responsible
> for this increase ?
Are you running (and using) kernel NFS on the box?
- James.
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