From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262123AbTD2SW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:22:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262124AbTD2SW3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:22:29 -0400 Received: from lakemtao03.cox.net ([68.1.17.242]:10489 "EHLO lakemtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262123AbTD2SW2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:22:28 -0400 Message-ID: <3EAEC5BC.3070008@cox.net> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 13:34:36 -0500 From: David van Hoose User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Question regarding inactive memory Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This may be a bit of a newbie'ish question, and maybe a bit off-topic, but is there any way for me to remove inactive memory, either explicitly or implicitly? I have 512MB of PC2700 SDRAM, but my system is constantly eating into the swap I have on my system since I have usually about 140-300MB of inactive (and dirty) RAM and usually about only 250MB in active memory. Is there a way for me to correct this bad memory usage without having to reboot? If patching the kernel would be a possible route to venture to, I'm game. Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Thank you all! David