where is my memory going??

Shaleh (shaleh@livenet.net)
Fri, 26 Dec 1997 02:10:03 -0500

I am running 2.0.32 on a libc5 system(debian). After boot my machine
consumes all but about 10 of my 64 megs of ram, and never frees it.
Also there is 120k of swap used for no apparent reason (48mb total on
system). I am at a loss for an explanation. 2.0.29 behaved similarly,
but did not eat my swap and did not chew as much mem. Suggestions or a
list important info needed to diagnose this problem welcome.
gestalt:~% free
total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 63464 54292 9172 5976 784
-/+ buffers: 53508 8388
Swap: 48348 120 48228 49284

This is w/ nothing running but standard daemons, i.e.
lpd,mingetty,inetd. My machine is a home workstation, so no incoming
traffic or major internet stuff.