11-25-2008
1/ it's most probable that
s93366 is right: the memory is not "going away", it's being cached. It will be deducted from the "free", will be added to the "used", it will be in "cached" columns.
2/ Open a second console and use the "
top" command. See which processes use most memory, see how much your java uses.
Or give us the output from the
free ![Smilie Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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show_cached_clearinghouse
show cached clearinghouse(1m) show cached clearinghouse(1m)
NAME
show cached clearinghouse - Displays current information about the specified cached clearinghouse
SYNOPSIS
cdscp show cached clearinghouse clearinghouse-name
ARGUMENT
A specific clearinghouse name. The name can contain wildcard characters.
DESCRIPTION
The show cached clearinghouse command displays all the names and values of the attributes in the specified cached clearinghouse. The fol-
lowing are valid attributes: Specifies the time at which this clearinghouse was added to the cache Specifies the number of operations other
than read and write (that is, skulks, new epochs, and so on) performed by this clerk on the cached clearinghouse Specifies the number of
lookup operations of any sort performed by the clerk on the cached clearinghouse Specifies the protocol sequence and Internet address of
the server that maintains the cached clearinghouse Specifies the number of write operations performed by this clerk on the cached clearing-
house
Privilege Required
You must have read permission to the clerk.
NOTE
This command is replaced at Revision 1.1 by the dcecp command and may not be provided in future releases of DCE.
EXAMPLE
The following command displays all attributes of the cached clearinghouse /.:/Paris2_CH. cdscp> show cached clearinghouse /.:/Paris2_CH
SHOW
CACHED CLEARINGHOUSE /.../abc.com/Paris2_CH
AT 1991-10-15-15:58:09
Creation Time = 1991-10-01-17:03:32.32
Read Operations = 412
Write Operations = 618
Miscellaneous Operations = 278
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: list clearinghouse(1m)
show cached clearinghouse(1m)