Ubuntu Eats My Memory

[Steve Flynn]

On 17/10/2007, Arun <arun.george.1981 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> top - 15:49:32 up 2 days, 21:33, 1 user, load average: 0.26, 0.28, 0.20
> Tasks: 57 total, 2 running, 55 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 4.5%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.5%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.5%si , 0.0%st
> Mem: 2074972k total, 2019180k used, 55792k free, 228732k buffers
> Swap: 6072528k total, 108k used, 6072420k free, 1383868k cached
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
> 1 root 18 0 2912 1848 524 S 0 0.1 0:01.44 init
> 2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
>
> I am using tomcat and mysql and I have really a heavy tomcat running. My
> unbunuts 2GB got filled up. So I stopped the server and waited for sometime.
> Also I stopped the mysql. All I got was a 300MB change , my machine is
> running on 1.7GB Ram now !!.
> What is the reason. Can you guys help.
>
>
This is normal. You will usually see all of your memory being used by Linux.
That which is not used by code will be used to cache libraries and regularly
used files.

-- 
Steve
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