Thanks for that. I started a scan (clear library and rescan) while still playing music.
Mem: 3834548K used, 102392K free, 49484K shrd, 1724916K buff, 1467968K cached CPU: 17.6% usr 4.1% sys 0.0% nic 71.6% idle 6.1% io 0.0% irq 0.3% sirq Load average: 0.40 0.33 0.35 4/190 12418 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND 9129 1 tc S 306m 7.9 2 0.5 {slimserver.pl} /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl --daemon --user tc --group staff 9147 1 root S 144m 3.7 2 0.4 /usr/local/bin/squeezelite -n Main -o hw:CARD=sndrpihifiberry -a 80 4 1 -v -C 15 12416 9129 tc R 97776 2.4 1 16.9 /usr/local/bin/perl /usr/local/slimserver/scanner.pl --noimage --prefsdir=/usr/local/slimserver/prefs --wipe --novideo --logconfig= 10178 9158 root S 76600 1.9 2 0.0 /usr/local/sbin/smbd 9158 1 root S 76480 1.9 0 0.0 /usr/local/sbin/smbd 9169 9158 root S 76480 1.9 0 0.0 {lpqd} /usr/local/sbin/smbd 9199 1 tc S 75704 1.9 1 0.0 /usr/local/bin/pcpmdnsd -h piCoreLMS -i 10.0.0.111 9161 9158 root S 74440 1.8 3 0.0 {smbd-notifyd} /usr/local/sbin/smbd 9162 9158 root S 74432 1.8 2 0.0 {cleanupd} /usr/local/sbin/smbd 9163 1 root S 60880 1.5 3 0.0 /usr/local/sbin/nmbd 9417 9223 root S 45520 1.1 3 0.3 /opt/jivelite/bin/jivelite 8352 1 root R 8360 0.2 3 3.1 mount.exfat -v -o noauto,users,noatime,exec,umask=000,flush,uid=1001,gid=50,iocharset=utf8 /dev/sda1 /mnt/lmsFiles2 9636 9633 tc S 6120 0.1 1 0.0 sshd: tc@pts/0 9633 8139 root S 6120 0.1 0 0.0 sshd: tc [priv] 8139 1 root S 5988 0.1 2 0.0 sshd: /usr/local/sbin/sshd ener 0 of 10-100 startups 2663 1 root S 5364 0.1 3 0.0 /usr/local/sbin/rngd The scan completed pretty fast (Total Time: 00:01:27 ). The music never skipped a beat. After the scan finished, the buffers were indeed smaller, and started climbing back up, which seems to confirm what you said about the operating system freeing memory as it is required by a process. Mem: 3386740K used, 550200K free, 49472K shrd, 1437932K buff, 1388708K cached CPU: 0.9% usr 0.5% sys 0.0% nic 98.3% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.1% sirq Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116171 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix