Sleeping System Has High RAM Usage

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Carlosinfl

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I have a Debian server which is basically sleeping and I notice that my RAM usage is crazy high. I left this server alone on Friday and it was using like 32 MB or RAM and now its over 1GB or RAM. I have no services running. I checked my other servers and my web / email servers which are high usage (RHEL 4) are all using 300-400 MB's of RAM.

Anyone know why this is so high? I know if I reboot the box, the usage will be less than 100MB and then when I stop the mailman / postfix daemons - it will creep down less.

 
Carloswill said:
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simply put, when your computer goes to sleep, your session is written to RAM so when you wake it up, it's quicker and ready to go as opposed to leaving data on the hard drive.

So as you can see, more RAM space is being used right when you tell your computer to sleep.
 
Better in the cache than in your swap space. You're okay.

Although things getting cached while a system is idling is kind of unusual. Usually you fill cache by running programs and such.
 
Sorry - this server does not go into a suspend or sleep state. Its just filtering air. It's doing basically nothing but idle.

The RAM usage does not look right to me...
 
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