Ubuntu Eats My Memory

[Andrew Zajac]

On 10/17/07, 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.


Unused ram is wasted ram.