On Jan 11, 2008 1:12 PM, Erik Sejr <<a href="mailto:esejr@wildroseinternet.ca">esejr@wildroseinternet.ca</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:23:43 -0500, Richard Freeman<br><<a href="mailto:r-mythtv@gw.thefreemanclan.net">r-mythtv@gw.thefreemanclan.net</a>> wrote:<br>> Marc wrote:<br>>> I'm running a SVN(15354) frontend/backend on Gentoo with 32 bits and I'm
<br>> not<br>>> seeing this problem.<br>>> asgard ~ # free -m<br>> > snip...<br>><br>> I just noticed these posts. If you're concerned about memory leaks /<br>> etc looking at the output of free is just about useless. Look at how
<br>> much memory individual processes are taking up instead.<br>><br>> It is completely normal for a linux system with 500GB of memory and at<br>> least as much hard drive space to swap to disk, and report most of the
<br>> memory as in use just about all the time.<br>><br>> The reason memory seems to be always in-use is that "free" memory in<br>> linux is memory that is not being used AT ALL for any purpose. Linux
<br>> tries to minimize the amount of completely-unused memory - preferring to<br>> use it for buffering or cache. When the memory is needed the cache is<br>> purged and the buffers are flushed. This only improves system
<br>> performance by reducing disk access. If memory isn't needed for<br>> something else you might as well use it as cache - it doesn't cost<br>> anything as cache can be instantly purged to be made available.
<br>><br></div>snip...<br><br>I upgraded to SVN Revsion 15043 and I am no longer having this memory<br>issue. Whatever it was, it seems to have been fixed.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>_______________________________________________
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Axel, when is the next spin of the SVN coming? I dont want to move back to SVN self compile too much manual work!<br><br>Mitchell<br>