Are you using hugemem kernel ? <div>On 10/4/06, Sudhir Damle <<a href="mailto:sudhir@stratogent.com">sudhir@stratogent.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I have rhel box with kernel 2.6, with 4 GB ram, I am expecting it to use most of the memory for disk cache and show very little memory as free, similar to other boxes. The cached size is only 818 MB, and free memory is 2661 MB, Any ideas why this machine is behaving differently than others. /proc/meminfo is below. Thanks, Sudhir Damle MemTotal: 4147196 kB MemFree: 2661124 kB Buffers: 61568 kB Cached: 818012 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 938124 kB Inactive: 456668 kB HighTotal: 3276544 kB HighFree: 1966592 kB LowTotal: 870652 kB LowFree: 694532 kB SwapTotal: 2097144 kB SwapFree: 2096984 kB Dirty: 5000 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 594788 kB Slab: 71684 kB Committed_AS: 1072320 kB PageTables: 6428 kB VmallocTotal: 106488 kB VmallocUsed: 3124 kB VmallocChunk: 103124 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB _______________________________________________ rhn-users mailing list <a href="mailto:rhn-users@redhat.com">rhn-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhn-users</a> </blockquote> </div> -- Regards, Anirudha Sonar