Jeff Hall wrote:
> Is there some reason why my system memory keeps getting eaten up? I've
> got Red Hat 7.1 kernel 2.4.3-12.
>
> I can make the memory usage creep up to about 99% used just by running a
> few sessions of netscape, unreal tournement, real player, etc. I have
> 512MB of ram. The swap files are almost not even used.
>
> According to top, there are no obvious memory hogs running. I notice
> that the memory allocated as "other" (as categorized by the GNOME memory
> applet), which is different from shared, buffered, or free memory, keeps
> creeping up when I run complex programs. It's stays this high between
> login sessions too! Only way to bring it back down is to reboot.
>
> Has anyone else had similar problems? This is a problem as I've been
> having some freeze up which force a hard reboot and today it corrupted
> one of my partitions!
>
> I've tried looking for some kind of explanation using google, but have
> not been successful in finding a better way to diagnose and fix the
> problem.
>
> Please, if you have an idea as to what it may be, please elaborate your
> answer, I'm only 1 month into my linux experience and don't know to much
> yet about configuring things.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jeff
>

this is an old question.. some user from Microsoft Window enviroment
like to have free memory. This is how to view linux/unix system... for
preformances!! Memory must be fully consumed! If not it pointless to
have big memory and system doesn't know to use it. All your application
memory space is save and store into memory for later use until there is
a need for other application. You should try this.. at first reboot. Run
netscape or mozilla, take time how long it take to startup fully, then
run it again see how fast its loads [or see how much noise ur hard disk
makes ]. If you don't see different then u got a problem.. this how
all operating system should work.

If suspect memory leakage .. just run one application for awhile. It
will crash.

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