My thoughts confirmed.... about 13.10

[Rashkae]

On 14-04-10 03:55 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> It is using less than half of the available RAM and virtually no swap. 
> That is probably nothing to worry about. Linux will use available RAM 
> for disk buffers and so on when it can in order to speed up the 
> system. If that is what is happening then the memory will be freed up 
> if it is required. If there were a significant memory leak then you 
> would probably the swap usage go up. Next time it happens run top in a 
> terminal and post the two lines showing the memory usage. Colin 


That was my first thought as well.  Fortunately for my foot (which 
already spends enough time down my throat as it is,) I tested the theory 
before hitting Send button.  Gnome System Monitor already removes 
Caching/buffers from Memory used stat.  And 1GB of ram is a huge amount 
of memory for a system with no applications running. (Even with several 
browser windows, Open Office, and various other misc windows open, my 
mem usage per Gnome System Monitor was only 700MB.)

But as you say, we need to find out exactly what process is hogging all 
the memory in this case.