Dear all:

I got very strange problem on our Shuttle PC, on memory leak.

Our Shuttle PC model is XPC SS59G, with 2GB Ram. When I try to install
Red Hat 9 / Fedora 4 / Fedora 5, installation is fine. The OS can
realize the 2G memory. But when i try to run any command ( not very
complex, just simple as "find" , "ls" ) , the OS will use the memory to
proceed . But unfortunlately, even the command is finished, OS nearly
doesn't release the used memory. Therefore, after i run several
commands, the free memory will be used up and try to use swap. The
seriously thing is the server will die very soon as the swap will also
use up.

Then i suspect it is the hardware problem ( i guess it is memory
problem ) so i do the experiment again. I install WinXP and run "burn
computer" program. This time, the PC run very normal, without "eat
memory" issue.

Does anyone face this issue ? Any solution i can do to fix it ?

Will this issue can be fixed by "tuning the linux kernel" ?

Alex Leung