Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 12:13, Nicola Richmond wrote:
> Has anyone ever experienced memory problems with Redhat 8.0?
> 
> Having run the system monitor, it appears that my RAM is getting all
> used up and never released. At present, I am running a couple of monitor
> applets the system monitor, I have evolution open and a terminal. 73% of
> my 640 MB RAM is being used and this figure is increasing as we speak.
> 
> Anyone any ideas?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nicola.


I dont think its unusual for linux to use pretty much all RAM, I think
this is just how linux/Unix memory management works.

You only need to be concerned if your machine is starting to require
lots of swap.

 Dave.



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