Message-ID: <1100D69203AAD2118E3C00508B8B9E8A17095F@mailhost.intech.unu.edu> From: "Heupink, Mourik Jan C." <Heupink@INTECH.UNU.EDU> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 17:23:16 +0100 Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.2 suddenly starts eating memory Thanks very much for your replies. It's great to receive suggestions and answers like this. Imagine: today I even got an email from Alan Cox!! (I just asked something in kernel-traffic, and he replied PERSONALLY!!!) (i was so excited) (just one line, though, but nevertheless!!) Could you ever imagine a major Micro$oft person doing that...? I just love this whole Linux thing. Cheers!

-----Original Message----- From: Lenz Grimmer [mailto:grimmer@suse.de] Sent: 16 November 2000 17:02 To: Suse-Linux-List (E-mail) Subject: RE: [SLE] SuSE 6.2 suddenly starts eating memory

Hi,

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Heupink, Mourik Jan C. wrote:

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So I found out, yes. I corrected the cron things. For now, it seems to be running fine.

Good.

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Swap: 120480K available, 744K used. It's not doing anything special, why should it want to use swap memory?

I guess it had to swap out that process while memory was tight. Obviously Linux does not need to run this process very often. So why bother swapping it back in memory, if it is not used anyway?

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Just a question. Is it normal to have only 3884K available on a machine that is not really doing a lot? 128MB installed, 124MB used, 4MK available. When I started up the box, it was using 54MB. This number increased a lot, but now it seems to be stabilized. Is that normal? Why does it use more and more memory upon normal circumstances?

Yes, this is normal. Linux uses free memory for cache memory. Why should the free RAM be left unused? :)

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