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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat centOS memory leak - MEGABYTES per day Post 302512636 by pludi on Monday 11th of April 2011 05:58:13 AM
Old 04-11-2011
The "used" number includes the values for buffers and caches, and isn't limited to memory used by applications alone. Buffers are primarily used for communication between processes (using pipes) and network buffers, while the cache is used to keep file contents in the fast-access RAM, instead of reading the much slower disk all the time. Linux tries to use as much memory as possible for buffers and cache in order to speed up processing and making the most of the expensive memory.

To check this, run echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, which should drop the numbers back to near zero.
 

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shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm

shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm(3)				      shishi					shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm(3)

NAME

       shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm - API function

SYNOPSIS

       #include <shishi.h>

       Shishi_key * shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm(Shishi * handle, const char * server, const char * realm);

ARGUMENTS

       Shishi * handle
		   Shishi library handle create by shishi_init().

       const char * server
		   server name to get key for

       const char * realm
		   realm of server to get key for.

DESCRIPTION

       Get host key for server in realm.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns the key for specific server and realm, read from the default host keys file (see shishi_hostkeys_default_file()), or NULL if no key
       could be found or an error encountered.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-shishi@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Simon Josefsson.
       Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without  royalty  provided  the  copyright
       notice and this notice are preserved.

SEE ALSO

       The  full documentation for shishi is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and shishi programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info shishi

       should give you access to the complete manual.

shishi								       1.0.1					shishi_hostkeys_for_serverrealm(3)
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