Cached memory never gets released

From: David Ashley (dash_at_xdr.com)
Date: 06/23/04

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    Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:31:12 -0700
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    Linux 2.4.23 on x86, 128M memory available
    Free outputs this:
                 total used free shared buffers cached
    Mem: 119204 109592 9612 0 60 92136
    -/+ buffers/cache: 17396 101808
    Swap: 0 0 0

    The root filesystem is NFS, no hard drives involved.
    When I run a simple program that just mallocs memory and fills it with
    random data, the kernel kills the process after it has only allocated 8 or
    9 megs. The 92136K of cached memory can't get released for some reason.
    What is happening?

    Thanks very much!
    -Dave
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