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Subject: Re: Memory Leaking. Help!
To: ivan@es.usyd.edu.au (ivan)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:09:07 +0100 (BST)
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> > What does ps -aux imply has all the memory ?
> Top at 9am showed 3.2GB of availabe memory.
> Top at 10am showed 2.3Gb of available memory

That seems reasonable. The kernel knows free memory is waste. Until it
has used all the available memory why does it need to worry about freeing
caches ?

Alan
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