On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 17:54 +0530, Vendra, Hari Prasad V V P Ch S (Hari
Prasad) wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using Fedora 3 Kernel 2.6.9-1.667
> without running any user applications
> the RAM usage is increasing in a short time.
> My machine has 512MB RAM.
> I am using "top" command for checking
> RAM usage. Any suggestions please
Hi Hari,
This is one of the most-reported "problems" by new Linux users and its
not a bug at all. Whats happening is the Linux kernel aggressively
caching things. It uses your "unused" (that is, unused by user-space
processes) RAM as a cache for the file system, etc.
In general, its a very efficient way of doing things since its making
maximal use of your RAM. So, no worries.
Ed
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