this is the screen shot of my top command
------------------- TOP --------------------------------------------
top - 10:22:43 up 1:20, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Tasks: 29 total, 2 running, 27 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0% user, 0.0% system, 0.0% nice, 100.0% idle
Mem: 903896k total, 98984k used, 804912k free, 20972k buffers
Swap: 4297348k total, 0k used, 4297348k free, 45132k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1 root 25 0 504 500 444 S 0.0 0.1 0:04.57 init
2 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 keventd
3 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 bdflush
4 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd
6 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kupdated
7 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kinoded
8 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mdrecoveryd
9 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 kswsuspd
13 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ahc_dv_0
14 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ahc_dv_1
15 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
16 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
19 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kreiserfsd
154 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd
290 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kjournald
689 root 25 0 636 636 532 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.02 syslogd
697 root 25 0 1300 1300 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.07 klogd
758 root 25 0 1420 1420 1288 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.09 sshd
860 root 25 0 632 632 552 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.00 crond
1046 root 25 0 448 448 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mingetty
1047 root 25 0 444 444 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mingetty
1048 root 25 0 444 444 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mingetty
1049 root 25 0 444 444 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 mingetty
1050 root 25 0 444 444 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mingetty
1051 root 25 0 2036 2032 1764 R 0.0 0.2 0:00.10 sshd
1053 root 25 0 1604 1604 1152 S 0.0 0.2 0:00.02 bash
1483 root 25 0 448 448 396 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 mingetty
1614 root 25 0 1016 1016 832 R 0.0 0.1 0:00.01 top
------------------- TOP --------------------------------------------
-----Original Message-----
From: ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 11:29 PM
To: Philippine Linux Users Group Mailing List
Subject: Re: [plug] Memory
> hi
>
> any idea why is it my memory is not freeing up
>
> aris
Check the buffers and cache usage.
Linux does not automatically free up memory when killing processes.
If your box is doing a lot of I/O then filesystem caching is taking up
most of the memory, you are probably using ext3/ext2 if this is the case.
ed [!] http://i.keepsilent.net
Professor at the University of my Living Room Sofa
Senior Researcher of the Kitchen Refrigerator
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