Re: [Sheflug] Eating up RAM

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:13, Jonathan Le Vallois wrote:
> > 
> > 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

Please re-read my comment, "I don't think its unusual for *LINUX* to use
pretty much all RAM", linux being the OS.


José's post explains why this is.

regards,

 Dave.





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