[96783] in RedHat Linux List
Disappearing memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Medlock)
Thu Oct 29 10:58:46 1998
From: Tim Medlock <tim@atdesk.com>
To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:42:23 -0500
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I have a 450MHz 256MB RedHat Intel system.
Does anyone know why memmory is not freed up when processes terminate? =
I don't have anything really running and I only have 8MB free memory.
When I do a top, I get the following:
10:21am up 1 day, 20:44, 1 users, load average: 0.21, 0.11, 0.38
35 processes: 33 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.5% system, 0.0% nice, 99.5% idle
Mem: 257048K av, 249540K used, 7508K free, 24148K shrd, 172216K buff
Swap: 256968K av, 0K used, 256968K free 44160K =
cached
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME =
COMMAND
3872 root 4 0 832 832 640 R 0 0.5 0.3 0:06 top
1 root 0 0 420 420 348 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:03 init
2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 =
kflushd
3 root -12 -12 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 =
kswapd
442 root 0 0 10988 10M 1676 S 0 0.0 4.2 0:01 X
3818 root 0 0 320 320 264 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
mingetty
368 root 0 0 556 556 472 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 =
ypbind
49 root 0 0 364 364 312 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
kerneld
212 root 0 0 464 464 384 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
syslogd
221 root 0 0 548 548 336 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd
232 daemon 0 0 440 440 364 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 atd
243 root 0 0 488 488 408 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 crond
254 bin 0 0 352 352 284 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
portmap
265 root 0 0 788 788 460 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 snmpd
276 root 0 0 428 428 352 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 inetd
287 root 0 0 644 644 520 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 named
299 root 0 0 1008 1008 792 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 xntpd
310 root 0 0 428 428 352 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 lpd
331 root 0 0 516 516 424 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 =
rpc.nfsd
322 root 0 0 504 504 416 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
rpc.mountd
428 root 0 0 320 320 264 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
mingetty
353 root 0 0 416 416 340 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
rpc.yppasswd
414 root 0 0 732 732 584 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:03 nmbd
366 root 0 0 436 436 376 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
ypbind
380 root 0 0 872 872 628 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 =
sendmail
392 root 0 0 312 312 264 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 gpm
405 root 0 0 680 680 496 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 smbd
438 root 0 0 1040 1040 936 S 0 0.0 0.4 0:00 xdm
440 root 0 0 232 232 192 S 0 0.0 0.0 0:01 =
update
3854 root 17 0 2268 2268 1352 R 0 0.0 0.8 0:28 xterm
3855 root 0 0 832 832 676 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 bash
3799 root 0 0 1344 1344 1132 S 0 0.0 0.5 0:00 =
xconsole
3801 root 0 0 996 996 780 S 0 0.0 0.3 0:00 =
xbanner
3115 root 19 19 128M 380 320 S N 8 0.0 0.1 0:00 =
reportlog
2229 root 0 0 712 712 536 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 =
in.telnetd
Thanks,
Tim
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