Losing Memory Somehow?!?
 

Hi Guys,
Running Mandrake 10/2GB/3.0Ghz...
When i reboot the box, it uses 500MB when everything is started.

If i run "top", my 2GB of memory dissapears about 200k at a time until i'm into my swap space (over about 3 days)

Maybe one of the programs i'm running has a memory leak...
Any ideas on how i can find out which one? or any other advice?

Thanks in advance!
Michael

This is more likely to be a hardware caching issue than a memory leak problem.

See here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=253226 or search the forums for the word "swappiness".

Basically, your system is only swapping out pages that it has in memory but isn't using (eg. for a daemon service that never gets called), in order to use more RAM for hardware caching. There is no performance penalty for this, except a possible latency issue for re-loading the swapped pages. You can stop it from swapping data out to make room for caching (with the swappiness file) if you like.

Thanks Rj,
I'll keep an eye on it.
Thanks
Michael