linux hogging memory

[Andy Green]

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On Thursday 03 June 2004 18:27, Ben Steeves wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 14:12, Andy Green wrote:

> > Fair point, but I am seeing this behaviour on FC1, all the dev versions
> > and now FC2 with a dev kernel:

> But it's not *bad* behaviour.  It's *optimal* (or at least optimizing)
> behaviour.

I often run scripts and apps and watch the cache memory expand to all 
available memory.  Then if I want to run an app that needs a lot of memory it 
is immediately given up for the app - so I agree, there is no better use for 
that RAM.  

But if you read the top pastes from the bug, that does not seem to be what is 
happening here.  The memory has leaked from the pool and is not available for 
cache or anything else until the next reboot.

- -Andy

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