the machine does seam to be slowing down though ... and the raid controller
on one of the machines has 64 mb of memory to cache with itself ?
----- Original Message -----
From: William Ahern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [expert] momory problems
> 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
