Unless I'm missing something, looks to me like its just the disk buffer/cache.
Linux caches files in (unused) memory, which REALLY increases performance (esp.
on a webserver). It mananges it well, and applications get the memory they
need, when they need it.
Bill
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> 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
