Slowly all my memory gets used up by fedora (2 GB)

[Mark]

thanx for the reply.
i just wanted to know for sure.

2007/4/10, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>:
>
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Mark wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > i`ve had this problem for a while (since FC5 if `im right) and slowly
> all
> > my memory gets used up.
> > i did the top command but that doesn`t show anything unusual besides
> that
> > all my memory is used.
> > i`m using Gnome.
> >
> > this is the top of top:
> >
> > top - 23:00:23 up  3:37,  3 users,  load average: 0.17, 0.11, 0.08
> > Tasks: 118 total,   1 running, 116 sleeping,   1 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 50.0%us, 50.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> > 0.0%st
> > Mem:   2038076k total,  1939184k used,    98892k free,   430052k buffers
> > Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   941860k cached
> >
> > The swap file isn`t being used.. but still the memory is filled up. in
> this
> > case i still have 98MB left but i`ve seen less.
> > is this a bug?
> > or is this the memory management of linux?
> >
> >
>
> The latter.  You've paid for it, so you use it :-)  Linux doesn't handle
> memory in the same way as windows does.  It uses all it can get, just
> releasing whatever it needs to, whenever it needs to.  The time to worry
> is
> when your swap is also used up :-)
>
> I've just been running some heavy processing work, and my swap had 220MB
> used.
> Most of the time it isn't used at all.  IOW, my box works well for
> ordinary
> work, but is somewhat underspecified for the heavier processing.
>
> Anne
>
>
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