[K12OSN] Freeing Server Memory

[Sudev Barar]

On 8/11/05, Mike Heins <k12osn at perusion.com> wrote:
> Quoting DWatkins at frkl.wnyric.org (DWatkins at frkl.wnyric.org):
> > I've got the Enterprise Linux (Centos) running on a Dell 1425SC with two
> > Xeon processor and 4 gigabytes of memory. I'm also serving DHCP for our
> > network and serving about 19 thin clients that are PXE booting to the
> > K12LTSP server. When I first started the server last month I was using
> > about 240 MB of RAM and today I noticed that was up to over 2 gigabytes of
> > RAM. I recently ran "up2date" and updated the kernel and all packages. I
> > am running the smp kernel.  How can I keep my memory free?  Any
> > suggestions?
> >
> 
> My suggestion is not to worry about it. You will probably notice that
> a lot of that memory is in buffers and cache; this is good. In fact,
> you don't really want/need memory free. You want it working for you.

To know exactly user memory status run "top" or "free -m" Man for the pages.
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Sudev Barar
Learning Linux