Memory Leak Using Top

[Gavin Hemphill]

Not a memory leak but normal linux memory usage (most of it is cache). 
The memory model is not what you are used to in other OS's

Butler, Thomas E. (US SSA) wrote:

> I ran the following test:
> 
> (1)     Boot up YDL 4.0 on Apple G5 Xserve
> 
> (2)     Start up into KDE and open terminal window
> 
> (3)     Start top and note initial RAM usage report
> 
> (4)     At end of 12 hours (basically overnight), note top RAM usage report
> 
>  
> 
> What is observed is an initial RAM report on the order of 100 MB RAM, 
> but the final report after 12 hours, running nothing but top
> 
> Is 2 GigaBytes RAM, or 100% of the available RAM.  Does anyone know 
> anything about this apparent memory leak?
> 
>  
> 
> Tom Butler
> 
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