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Subject: Re: Memory Leaking. Help!
To: ivan@es.usyd.edu.au (ivan)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 01:10:03 +0100 (BST)
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> > totally mislead by it. Named for example will grow and shrink over time 
> > according to what it has cached and what people asked for.
> 
> But it took half of my swap (4GB) as well. A bit too much 
> for a little bind. How to explain this?

2Gb seems a bit odd - are you sure bind is the one that ate it ?

What does ps -aux imply has all the memory ?
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