I would recommend you to use the hugmem kernel it must solve your problem , if I am not wrong hugmem kernel is made for the systems which are having more ram .<br><br>
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On Behalf Of </span></b>Anirudha Sonar<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 05, 2006 2:58 AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Discussions about Red Hat Network (<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://rhn.redhat.com/" target="_blank">
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<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On 10/4/06, <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sudhir Damle</span></b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:sudhir@stratogent.com" target="_blank">
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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Hello,<br><br>I have rhel box with kernel 2.6, with 4 GB ram, I am expecting it to use<br>most of the memory for disk cache and show very little memory as free,
<br>similar to other boxes.<br><br>The cached size is only 818 MB, and free memory is 2661 MB, Any ideas why <br>this machine is behaving differently than others.<br><br>/proc/meminfo is below.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Sudhir Damle
<br><br><br><br>MemTotal: 4147196 kB<br>MemFree: 2661124 kB<br>Buffers: 61568 kB <br>Cached: 818012 kB<br>SwapCached: 0 kB<br>Active: 938124 kB<br>Inactive: 456668 kB<br>HighTotal: 3276544 kB
<br>HighFree: 1966592 kB<br>LowTotal: 870652 kB<br>LowFree: 694532 kB <br>SwapTotal: 2097144 kB<br>SwapFree: 2096984 kB<br>Dirty: 5000 kB<br>Writeback: 0 kB<br>Mapped: 594788 kB
<br>Slab: 71684 kB<br>Committed_AS: 1072320 kB<br>PageTables: 6428 kB <br>VmallocTotal: 106488 kB<br>VmallocUsed: 3124 kB<br>VmallocChunk: 103124 kB<br>HugePages_Total: 0<br>HugePages_Free: 0
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