I have reported this several times but haven't got any response.
Because it is completly mysterious to me, I would really be VERY happy, if
one could give a hint even if this is :
1) ...reported and/or solved by someone else before.
2) ...a completely silly newbie question. A newbie only will become a "guru"
after years of questions AND answers... ;-)
And now: what happens?
After a while runnning linux with several applicatuons, I "lost" memory...
For me the sum of MemFree, MemShared, Buffers, Cached
(by using "cat /proc/meminfo") memory usage has to be (nearly)
the value of MemTotal, isn't it?
But after a while, my output of "cat /proc/meminfo" looks like:
MemTotal: 31140 kB
MemFree: 9004 kB
MemShared: 4968 kB
Buffers: 1052 kB
Cached: 8424 kB
SwapTotal: 21484 kB
SwapFree: 19720 kB
As one can see, 7692 kB are missing. Where has my memory gone??????
If there would no other "features" ;-), I would say, only the
code, which is responsible for /proc/meminfo has some problems --
but if this happens, my box begins to swap. Only a reboot
would reset the values.
I have tried to close all applications (only X, fvwm and a module of fvwm
and one rxvt/bash were running beside the other deamons and system stuff).
What is going on in my box???
KEEP HACKING!
meino
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E-Mail: Meino Christian Cramer <mccramer@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de>
Date: 24-Aug-97
Time: 10:48:59
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