Fung spake the following on 6/20/2007 8:12 AM: > Hi All, > > My CentOS 5.0 is running on x86 machine with 4GB RAM. It runs as a > webserver and there is a small java applet application. > > When the system is fresh reboot, there is below 1GB of used memory and > as times go , the used memory increased to over 3.5GB. > > Is there a way to free memory out like those program which works under > Windows? > > > Thank you. Linux doesn't work like that. The extra used memory is just buffers and will be freed if anything needs memory. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!