December 2, 200817 yr hey guys... I have 1 gig of memory in my system and when i do a fresh reboot I have about 700 megs free. After about 2 days of use, the free memory drops down to about 12 megs. Is this a problem? I have several user shares that I write to through my network. I only write to user shares and never to the disk shares, could this be a problem? I can post the syslog, but I don't really see anything important in there, and the file is not 800mb:) Thanks, Munky
December 2, 200817 yr Normally that is not a problem. Linux will use all available memory for caching files. This is normal. If your syslog is taking up all of your memory then you have a problem..
December 2, 200817 yr Sounds normal... the rest is in disk buffer cache and will be re-used as needed. (Good that your syslog is not 800Meg ) On my server I have 512Meg of ram, and most of it is in the disk buffers. Only "6972k" is free at the moment. Mem: 514016k total, 507044k used, 6972k free, 329380k buffers
December 2, 200817 yr Author root@Tower:/var/log# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1001 971 29 0 0 929 -/+ buffers/cache: 41 959 ... is this ok?
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