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Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM




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.

Sorry, but this isn't true. All programs should release memory at least when they exit and better still as they no longer require it. A failure to do so just bad programming. It's nothing to do with the operating system (unless some part of the operating system is written in this way). You can check what processes are using memory with

'top'

or

'ps -e -o user,pid,vsz,pcpu,pmem,comm'


Jonathan

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