On Fri, December 3, 2004 8:43 am, Yang Xiao said: > Hi all > I'm running FC2 with the latest 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp Kernel, but it seems > that it doesn't release buffer and cached memory so that memory used > under sar -r shows memory used is always 90% +, is this something new > or a bug? > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 1009 977 32 0 222 610 > -/+ buffers/cache: 144 865 > Swap: 2000 0 2000 Hi Yang, Always been like this as unused RAM is a waste. The cache and buffers will be reduced when there is a more pressing need for memory, such as when loading a program. Cheers, Sean