On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:58, David C. Hart wrote: > On Wednesday morning I had to reboot our server. At the time > (according to top) it was using about 345 mb of memory. On reboot, > that dropped down to about 68mb. Same services and - in theory - > the same processes running. In both instances, about eight IMAP > mailboxes were open. > > By last night it had climbed back up to about 250mb. > > Is this behavior normal? Do folks do a scheduled reboot to recover > these resources or should I just leave it alone? > Just a quick question; Why wouldn't you want to use every scintilla of memory that you have available? Since I can't see what possible benefit empty memory provides, I'd be surprised to hear that this isn't expected. Regards, Mike Klinke
