ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> prad wrote:
>> On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:14:18 +0300
>> Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> How much swap do you have?
>>>
>>>     
>> 2G and it is kept busy i'm sure.
>> top shows the memory being used at 494M even before i start any
>> applications.
>>
>> as i write this i have claws-mail, firefox, 1 gnome-terminal and update
>> manager just finished:
>> ram use 419M, swap 176M on top
>> ram use 260M, swap 178M on system monitor
>>
>> i don't understand why top and system monitor are showing such
>> different values for ram use.
>>
>>   
>     I see the same thing, top uses a lot of RAM for some reason and I 
> never leave it running long :-)

It might just be small differences in calculation methods.  I do not 
believe top has memory leak as implied by Karl.

Below is an example of top and free from this computer:

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Mem:   1019108k total,   856288k used,   162820k free,    22936k buffers
Swap:  2980016k total,        0k used,  2980016k free,   378768k cached
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1019108     856032     163076          0      22944     378768
-/+ buffers/cache:     454320     564788
Swap:      2980016          0    2980016
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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