Yup, dont use top for memory checking, better one is to use "free" that will show how much is used for cache and is also free and whats used genuinely.
On Apr 6, 2005 9:11 AM, Skunk0001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's just the way linux works, the high memory useage in top is a good > thing, it's the OS having cached the most requested data in the available > unused RAM. A program isnt technically using it, and the RAM is available > to programs if they need it. Linux is just clever enough to not waste RAM by > having to doing nothing. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hershey > Sent: 06 April 2005 04:52 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [hlds_linux] Memory leaks in srcds? > > I was a little concerned when I noticed memory leaks reported upon exiting > srcds (srcds_amd more specifically), but it seems that the situation is > worse than I was led to believe. > > My server has 640MB of RAM, and top reports srcds having an executable image > size of approx 130m on startup. Obviously this goes up as the server > populates, but never exceeds 50% mem usage. After several hours of running, > however, almost the entirety of my box's mem is reported being used, but > srdcs is still showing < 50%. What really bothers me is that after some > time, half or more of the srcds executable image is paged. > > Aside from srcds, the machine is only running sshd, metalog, etc, nothing > major (at most 2-3% mem is accounted for by extra processes). > > I'm wondering if there is anything I can do to recover the unaccounted for > memory. I'm also curious if there are known leaks in srcds that might > explain this behavior. > > Thanks, > David > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
