[linux-help] Re: Consumption of free memory

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's supposed to do that.  Notice that 0 of your swap is used.  The buffers
and cache will grow to fill the maximum amount of _physical_ RAM.  Then,
when that RAM is needed by a running process, it will clear the
buffers/cache to allow it the RAM it needs.


On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:09:35PM -0500, John Resler wrote:
> 
> I am running Redhat 7.1 and I am having a problem I've not had before.
> If I leave the system running, I gradually run out of free memory. I
> can't determine the process that is causing it but everything points to
> the os. This is an output of the free command:
> 
> 
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers    
> cached
> Mem:        384424     206616     177808          0      11684    
> 136636
> -/+ buffers/cache:      58296     326128
> Swap:       393552          0     393552
> 
> if I don't shut it down regularly, the buffers and cached memory
> continue to grow. Any ideas as to where to start would be appreciated. I
> don't think its a cron job because I have the default settings from
> Redhat but I don't know. Thanks ahead of schedule.
> 
> -John
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