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Subject: Re: Where is the memory
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On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

|scuba@centroin.com.br wrote:
|[ ... ]
|> =09My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating
|> memory and not releasing it.
|
|The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space=
 to
|cache stuff from disk, unless and until that memory is needed for somethin=
g else.

=09It seems that this is the case. I wrote a small program to
allocate a large block of memory (more them that shown as free) and the
system doesn=B4t swap.

=09That is the memory top shows as "Inactive"?

Thank you,

- Marcelo Souza