I have Red Hat 9.0 with all updates to kernel, packages, etc..   When I boot
the system and it comes to an desktop, there is approx. 440 Mb of 640 MB.
So the system is only using approx. 200 Mb.  But after about an hour, the
free memory drops to 20 MB and the system is using 620 MB.   I have stopped
almost every service and this still happens.   I'm not the only one seeing
this problem based on other postings, but I haven't seen a definate cause
for this situation.


When I run "ps eux", nothing shows that much memory.   Any clues ?????

Thanks,
James Girtman
j_girtman@yahoo.com

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James Girtman wrote:
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> So the system is only using approx. 200 Mb.  But after about an hour, the
> free memory drops to 20 MB and the system is using 620 MB.   I have
> stopped
> almost every service and this still happens.   I'm not the only one seeing
> this problem based on other postings, but I haven't seen a definate cause
> for this situation.
>
>
> When I run "ps eux", nothing shows that much memory.   Any clues ?????


If you type the "free" command you'll probably see that a lot of your memory
is used for caching. Linux does a lot of caching and this doesn't have to
be a bad thing. Why free memory when you don't need it for something else?
If an application needs more memory Linux will give it to the application
and free memory it's currently using for caching.

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