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ivan wrote:

> This top at 11am
> 10:19am  up 13:23,  6 users,  load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.01
> 143 processes: 142 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU0 states:  0.0% user,  5.0% system,  0.0% nice, 94.0% idle
> CPU1 states:  0.0% user,  1.0% system,  0.0% nice, 98.0% idle
> Mem:  3799080K av, 2215132K used, 1583948K free,    1580K shrd,  377916K 
> buff
> Swap: 8192992K av,       0K used, 8192992K free                 1515392K 
> cached
> 
> Mashine is doing NFS and DNS, not much load?
> 


Perhaps it's worth noting that of those 2.2 GB in use, 1.5 GB are used 
as cache; seems to me there's no leak, your system is just caching as 
much data as it can in memory. The actual memory in use (check with 
'free') is total-(buffers+cache)= 2.2-(0.37+1.51)GB=about 320 MB, which 
seems reasonable enough

Eugenio
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