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Re: Disappearing memory
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Thu Oct 29 17:22:16 1998
Reply-To: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 17:01:12 -0500
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could be the system not totally being supported..
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Medlock <tim@atdesk.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:41 AM
Subject: Disappearing memory
>I have a 450MHz 256MB RedHat Intel system.
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>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.
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>When I do a top, I get the following:
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> 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
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> 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
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>Thanks,
>Tim
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