Description of problem: Memery duz not refresh, memory gets eaten up badly


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How reproducible:nikolaos meimaris <cuznick> writes:

> im having probloms with my system eating memory
> 
> My system:
> 
> 2 x PII Xeon 500 mhz
> was 1.5 gig RAM now is 1.0 gig RAM ( needed RAM on other)
> 3 Gig swap 
> 
> I was downloading the updates and notised my memery shrinking. 
> I started the downloads, and the instalation. I was eating 785MB of 
RAM
> on a system at idle, after I was dun. the installer was thrue. window 
was
> closed. It had finished.It was kaput.
> 
> restarted was running ok at 100+ RAM
> 
> started downloadong ISO thru 'curl'  memory is geting eaten at the 
rate
> of the download. memery growing transversy perportional to download
>  
> opend  'System Monitor' added "all" the running prosses came	to 200+
> somthing had some things running. Added the download( at  the MB 
state of
> download it was in) to the 'system monitor' and got same number + 
some
> 
> My question is redhat 8.0 use Ram not swap for downloads?
> Is it saposed to keep eating RAM after download is thrue?
> Will redhat 9.0 cuere me?
> 
> God Bless
> and Thank You
> Nikolaos A Meimaris
>  P.S. at 697 Mb used right now

 I allso get the problem when i right CD-Rs the memery fills up as fast as the
cd is writen and it dusent refresh


Steps to Reproduce:
1.bownload somthing

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Actual results:memory gets eaten


Expected results: memory to get refreshed and re alocated


Additional info: God Loves You