Detecting memory leak
Karen Hill "Unix" is not an operating system! It's a family of operating systems. It's the sort of family where your...
I do not wish to insult anyone's intelligence, but it seems to me that most people do not understand Linux's memory management system and freak out when they see that after the machine has been up a little while, almost all the memory (no matter how much you have) will be consumed. For example, my desktop has 8 GBytes of RAM which is a vanity more than a necessity. And the memory usage is like this:
$ free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8208852 68 plus 195844 1213008 0 446788 5534732 --+ buffers-cache: 1014324 7194528 Swap: 8193076 0 8193076
Karen Hill Greetinds: I have noticed the previous responses to your inquiry and also found them to disastifsctory. A simplistic answer to your question about what is 'UNIX', first...
That is actually somewhat low for this machine, but a large set of related memory hogs just exited and gave back the memory they were using.
This is not a sign of memory leakage, but just that the kernel thinks it can make better memory allocation than you can. A rule of operating systems goes like this: The more you try to outsmart an operating system, the more it will outsmart you.
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