 | | | Red Hat Enterprise WS 3 update 5 memory cache problem? | Red Hat Enterprise WS 3 update 5 memory cache problem? 2005-08-04 - By Jussi Silvennoinen
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> The situation is that it seems that redhat cannot release the cache
> that it have been use. Let say I start 1 program and it use 5GB of the
> memory then I quit the program and start another new different program.
> Let say that the new program need to use 3GB of memory. If I use free -m
> it shows that I've been using 8GB and so on... until it fill up all the
> 16GB. If I quit all the programs, still it wont release the cache.
>
> Is there any command that I can use to release the
> cache. Has anyone experience this.
Why should it "release the cache" if nothing actually needs the memory?
This is not Solaris which hides things from you unless you install
software which can tell you whats actually going on.
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Jussi
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