Yeah, that might be it. Is there a way to flush it besides "sync"?
Here is the output:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 687708 489396 198312 0 198588 139984
-/+ buffers/cache: 150824 536884
Swap: 401584 0 401584
Call me paranoid but I don't like seing around 200M in buffers :)
Luis
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote:
> Luis Chardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have noticed that my linux box is using a whole lot of physical memory.
> > I have about 672MB on my box and even if I go to runlevel 1 and unload all
> > the modules and unmount all the filesystems, it still is using almost all
> > the memory. This is happening from Mandrake 7.1 and still happens on 7.2.
> > I'm using kernel 2.2.17.
> >
> > Does anyone now if there is a memory leak, or a way to see where my memory
> > is going to, besides using the top and free commands?
>
> Its probably just disk cache.
>
> what does 'free' say?
>
> rc
>
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