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At 15:25 17.03.99 -0500, Billy Passauer wrote:
>The reason I'm looking is because I am losing "free" memory in a big
>way on this computer (rh linux 5.2, 64M of RAM) and nothing else (out
>of the ordinary) is running besides dhcpd. I restarted the server at
>about 11:30 this morning, ran top and saw that I had 46M of free RAM.
>It's about 4 hours later and I'm down to about 36M. It'll keep
>dwindling if I let it go.
That's quite normal, and a Good Thing too. "Free" memory is unused
memory, so Linux puts it to a good use, for example for caching file
system blocks and the like. So your "free" memory probably isn't
really "lost", but put to work.
As long as the dhcpd process itself isn't growing there's no reason
to suspect a memory leak.
>USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>root 288 0.3 5.7 4052 3652 ? S 11:26 0:39 /usr/sbin/dhcpd
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Looks quite reasonable to me, and certainly doesn't account for a
memory loss of 10M.
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