On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 18:43:12 -0700
gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively:
>
>Does anyone have advice for tracking down a memory leak?
>
>I'm getting down to 2M of RAM. Running 'top' doesn't show anything
>using much memory, and I've tried killing most of the running processes
>but that doesn't help. I can only free up the memory by restarting my
>server.
>
>I'm running kernel 2.4.7-12.3mdk.
>
>Any advice is appreciated.
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What *exactly* is top reporting to you. You may not actually have a
memory leak. Linux tends to view "unused" memory as "wasted" memory.
Howmuch of that mem is actually "cached".
Mike
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