Possible memory leak?

[Stefan Ehmann]

On Sunday 18 March 2007 20:25:19 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> > Sometimes I'm noticing very high memory usage. Nearly my whole memory
> > (1GB) is used although I'm running my usual set of processes - normally
> > memory usage is much lower.
> >
> > I killed most processes but memory usage remains high.
> >
> > Summing the VSZ values of the ps aux output gives about 34MB. top reports
> > 316MB active memory.
> >
> > Where did my memory go? Are there any tools for debugging this?
>
> This is a FAQ.  "free memory is wasted memory".

Sorry for the noise. I somehow thought that's only true for inactive/cache 
memory and active is different - but obviously I was wrong.