From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98) Description of problem: I am running Redhat 7.0, and have a serious memory leak. The system usually uses around 100 megs of memory when it boots up, but w/out running a single program, in hours it's using up nearly all system memory. (384 megs) I can not figure out which process is causing this... when I run top, and sort by memory usuage, the X server is using the most memory of any process (usually between 40 and 60 megs) I have not been able to find any memory leak reports on the Redhat web site, and I have no idea how to pinpoint this memory leak, any help is appreciated How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot system up 2. Do not run any programs for several hours 3. Memory usage will climb gradually Additional info:
It's being used for buffers & cache. It's normal; it will be freed if it's needed for something else.