Re: top command free mem

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:36:00 +0100

Les Higger wrote:

> few min. should not the memory rise back up to some larger number. ie
> starts around 10megs and drops to 2 or so..

Not unless you quit a program that is using a lot of memory. UNIX uses
most free memory as file system cache, and only keeps a small amount
free. File cache memory is automatically freed when applications demand
more memory.

---
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 15:31:39 MST

This archive was generated by hypermail pre-2.1.9 : Tue Dec 09 2003 - 16:43:10 MST