>I am running 2.0.32 on a libc5 system(debian). After boot my machine
>consumes all but about 10 of my 64 megs of ram, and never frees it.
>Also there is 120k of swap used for no apparent reason (48mb total on
>system). I am at a loss for an explanation. 2.0.29 behaved similarly,
>but did not eat my swap and did not chew as much mem. Suggestions or a
>list important info needed to diagnose this problem welcome.
>gestalt:~% free
> total used free shared buffers
>cached
>Mem: 63464 54292 9172 5976 784
>-/+ buffers: 53508 8388
>Swap: 48348 120 48228 49284
>
>This is w/ nothing running but standard daemons, i.e.
>lpd,mingetty,inetd. My machine is a home workstation, so no incoming
>traffic or major internet stuff.
-/+ buffers is behaving as -/-. Your free is incorrect. (I seem to
recall having heard this before on the list.)
-- Johan Wiltink I am. I think.