Memory Leak?

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 12:06 -0400, Stephen Durham wrote:
> One more question: Is there a known memory leak with Evolution or Gnome
> going on. My memory usage upon rebooting is about 22% with 11% cache out
> of 1GB. Before I rebooted with everything closed it was about 78% with
> 40% cache. I don't experience any kind of slow down, but this might be
> an issue when I get some games installed.
> Thanks,
> Stephen Durham
> 

It could be, but you should remember that Linux memory handling works in
a way that it gets always as much memory as it could and caches anything
it could so the speed is improved. Perhaps the "free" command shows you
your memory full but that's not really true, Linux handles it correctly
and if you have an application that needs a lot of memory, it will get
the needed amount and the cached portion will be reduced.

So, Linux gets all memory and handles it in a good way, don't worry if
the systems says that you don't have free memory, the only thing that
should "scare" you is if the swap file usage increases its size too much
with a small list of running applications.

Cheers.

-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
Ubuntu Warty (PowerPC)  => http://www.ubuntulinux.org
Linux Registered User #121232
mailto:carlos at pemas.net || mailto:carlos at gnome.org
http://carlos.pemas.net
Valencia - Spain
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