[cobalt-users] Buffered memory

[RoBSD <robsd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I have a problem with a RAQ3 that seems to buffer a very large part of
its RAM memory. Before I run tinydns and dnscache in the same time the
usage of the memory it's about 40 MB RAM but after that it's about 512
MB RAM but 445 MB are buffered.

I already shutdown every program like (httpd, bind, admserv,...) and I
only run djbdns,sendmail and ssh!

You can see the memory usage in the following part of the message!

after command "free"
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        517196     513692       3504       9720     445880      11372
-/+ buffers/cache:      56440     460756
Swap:       131536         44     131492

after command "top"
  8:57am  up 7 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.25, 0.16
27 processes: 26 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states:  4.5% user,  7.4% system,  0.0% nice, 88.0% idle
Mem:  517196K av, 513800K used,   3396K free,  10236K shrd, 445884K buff
Swap: 131536K av,     44K used, 131492K free                 11376K cached

   PID USER     PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT  LIB %CPU %MEM   TIME COMMAND
  512 root      10   0  1040 1040   872 R       0  0.9  0.2   0:00 top
    1 root       0   0   476  476   416 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:04 init
    2 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kflushd
    3 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:01 kupdate
    4 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kpiod
    5 root       0   0     0    0     0 SW      0  0.0  0.0   0:00 kswapd
    6 root     -20 -20     0    0     0 SW<     0  0.0  0.0   0:00 mdrecoveryd
   91 root       0   0   528  528   432 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 syslogd
  100 root       0   0   780  780   388 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 klogd
  249 root       0   0   540  540   456 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 crond
  261 snort      1   0  3464 3464   824 S       0  0.0  0.6   0:00 snort
  273 root       0   0   416  416   352 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 inetd
  302 root       0   0  1032 1032   772 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 sendmail
  310 root       2   0   128  128   108 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 lcdsleep
  346 root       0   0  1008 1008   916 S       0  0.0  0.1   0:00 sshd
  348 root       0   0   464  464   388 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 getty
  349 root       0   0   348  348   280 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 svscan
  352 root       0   0   324  324   264 S       0  0.0  0.0   0:00 supervise

Do you know any program that will try to use so much memory?

Thank you very much!
Radu