Re: [analog-help] Memory usage,

[analog-help]

meminfo (and top, etc.) on Linux will always look like that. The OS does 
not report allocated memory as "free" once it has been allocated. 
Rather, it will be listed as "used" but in actuality is available to 
other process to use. It's something like a lazy garbage collection -- 
it only cleans up when there is a need for it.

If you actually run analog again, I think you will find that you have no 
problems running it at all. Or any other program.

--
Jeremy Wadsack
Seven Simple Machines
Lee Evans wrote:
This is surely impossible. It's under the control of the OS, not the
   

program,
 

and any OS which didn't free memory when programs quit would crash very
   

quickly indeed.
 

Maybe whatever tool you are using isn't reporting the free memory
   

accurately>
 

(or at least, not reporting a useful statistic).
   

[EMAIL PROTECTED] local]# cat /proc/meminfo
       total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  1188331520 1123258368 65073152        0 14237696 1057882112
Swap: 271425536  9392128 262033408
No other programs seem to have the same effect (if I don't run analog
the system never seems to touch even 300mb used), despite this the
system does appear completely stable (even if a little sluggish!)
 

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