According to David Rysdam: While burning my CPU.
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> Gevaerts Frank wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, David Rysdam wrote:
> >
> > > Something is leaking memory on my linux server box. Is there any way to
> > > tell what program is doing it besides the process of elimination (reboot
> > > start everything but one service check it and repeat)?
> >
> > ps -aux will give you a list of all processes, including memory usage.
> > Are you sure you have a memory leak ? free showing less available memory
> > after some time is normal, since some of it is used as disk cache.
> >
> > Frank
>
> No, I'm definitely leaking memory. From 18 MB free to 2 MB free in
> about 3 days.
Thats "sounds" like normal procedure to me.
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> What's weird is no processes seem to be taking an undue amount of RAM.
Then whats the problem, what you are seeing is the kernel doing its job.
> I just have high "cached" and "buffered" values (11 and 13
> respectively). I'm getting this info from 'cat /proc/meminfo'.
Use 'free'
You have realy seen the answer to your own question but you dont understand
what it means, "buffered" and "cached" memory is what linux does all the
time.
It may seem like your memory is being eaten up after a few days but its not,
its being buffered and cached by the kernel as you describe above.
Now all my comments are based upon "Stable kernels", if you are using a
"development kernel" then hold your breath.
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> When I reboot the same processes are running but the free memory shoots
> back up.
Thats perfectly normal.
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