Where is the memory

[scuba at centroin.com.br]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote:

|scuba at centroin.com.br wrote:
|[ ... ]
|> 	My problem is that I think something in the system is allocating
|> memory and not releasing it.
|
|The kernel will attempt to use all but a little RAM reserved as free space to
|cache stuff from disk, unless and until that memory is needed for something else.

	It seems that this is the case. I wrote a small program to
allocate a large block of memory (more them that shown as free) and the
system doesn´t swap.

	That is the memory top shows as "Inactive"?

Thank you,

- Marcelo Souza