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Okay while i did learn something very importent im now posetive that there was a problem "before". After i found out about the free command i notice that was what i was using for my mrtg. #!/bin/sh USED=`free -b|grep cache:|cut -d ":" -f2|cut -c1-11` FREE=`free -b|grep cache:|cut -d ":" -f2|cut -c12...

Yeah i did think of both, but that just made the "memory leak" even more wierd. Im really happy now i found this out.

Ill have to rewrite my mrtg memory display so it uses the free tool

Okay... i was being a noob... I can't believe i never knew this in all this time i have been running linux

http://info-x.co.uk/docview.asp?id=117

BTW. I know from the last 5 months of looking at memory graphs that it goes all the way up to 500'ish Memory use and then i have seen the graph suddenly DUMP to 90-120Mb usage in the middle of the night.

And thats with programs running on it, where 80Mb is what it used after boot with that setup.

I have had my Dual 466Mhz for a long time, once it was even a Dual 333@500 until i got two 466Mhz for free. It ran heavenly under Win2k and WinXP up until i changed it for a P4 1.6Ghz. For the last year i started running Linux on it, Debian stable, unstable, testing. kernel version 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6....