Recovering Resources

[Mike Klinke]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 11:58, David C. Hart wrote:
> On Wednesday morning I had to reboot our server. At the time
> (according to top) it was using about 345 mb of memory. On reboot,
> that dropped down to about 68mb. Same services and - in theory -
> the same processes running. In both instances, about eight IMAP
> mailboxes were open.
>
> By last night it had climbed back up to about 250mb.
>
> Is this behavior normal? Do folks do a scheduled reboot to recover
> these resources or should I just leave it alone?
>

Just a quick question; 

Why wouldn't you want to use every scintilla of memory that you have 
available? Since I can't see what possible benefit empty memory 
provides, I'd be surprised to hear that this isn't expected.

Regards,  Mike Klinke