[SLE] memory management vs. 'top' utility - SuSE 8.0

From: babu walad (vyav_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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    Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:58:51 -0700 (PDT)
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    Folks,

    I use Matlab quite a bit and the other day, I
    happended
    to do a top to see what was going on on my SuSE 8.0
    machine and 'top' indicated all my 512MB of ram was
    used up and an additional 20MB of swap was being used.

    I promptly quit my Matlab job and waited a few minutes
    till 'top' showed the machine was idling at 98.7 (or
    so) % with no real user process other than daemons
    and what have you running.

    What concerned me was 'top' still showed 512BG of ram
    being used and some swap as well.

    My question is is this a bug in 'top' or is memory
    management really that screwed up with PCs ?

    Any insight?

    Thanks,

    Babu

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