The higher memory usage might be related to the way the linux kernel handles RAM and swap. Is your swap usage also higher? Or is it maybe lower. Maybe the kernel moves somes more data into memory and less data to swap.
Swapping space is indeed a little bit lower than before... And since 10:00 this morning, the CPU graph is also at the old near-zero level. Monday virus!
The features in ASL 5.100 are great but it is a memory HOG especially on systems with more than 1GB RAM. I am still trying to figure out which module is draining the RAM. My 2GB RAM is exhausted and 4GB Swap file is more than 98% full. I am only using HTTP Proxy and WebAV. The WebAdmin responds after a long time and sometimes shows Internal Server Error: unable to complete your request...[no address given] ... Any HELP will be greatly appriciated...
Log in as root and then type top. See what the cached memory is. I bet it is a ton. Try this commmand as root: swapoff -a
With 2 gigs of ram you should not have any adverse system effect from running this way. Rh9 and above(not including fedora) has a vm bug which the kernel swaps instead of releasing the file cache. I have seen this bug to an extent in ASL 5 as well. Also more research has shown the Rh fixes the problem only to bring it back. While i am talking about RH this bug appears to apply to ASL 5.1. Here's more information:
Redhat has released a new kernel that so far has greatly rediced this issue. I am testing it on my two wrvers here to make sure the problem is truly resolved.
