[expert] momory problems

[David Rodgers]

OK guys heres a new one ....... I installed mandrake and I am using it as a
mail server for about 10 people and here is the catch ......it's like
whenever a process stops it doesn't free up the ram that it was using ....
it works ok for 3 or four days after a reboot but if you let it go longer
than that it like it eats all of the system memory constantly reporting
that all but about 10 megs of ram are in use even when there are very few
processes running .... the machine is a p200 with 256 megs of ram ...... I
thought it was just a fluke and maybe it was using that much because the
pop3 eats memory so I installed it on a quad p3 with 2 gigs of ram ........
I came back and looked at it 4 days later and I was reading only 100 MB of
memory free out of 2 gigs with only a few processes running ?????


Please help