AS v3 Memory Usage

[Ryan Golhar]

Here is what free is giving me:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        504716     464096      40620          0      43612
311668
-/+ buffers/cache:     108816     395900
Swap:      1044184          0    1044184

cat /proc/meminfo:

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  516829184 475574272 41254912        0 44994560 319148032
Swap: 1069244416        0 1069244416
MemTotal:       504716 kB
MemFree:         40288 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         43940 kB
Cached:         311668 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:         183164 kB
ActiveAnon:      81308 kB
ActiveCache:    101856 kB
Inact_dirty:    192040 kB
Inact_laundry:   57736 kB
Inact_clean:         0 kB
Inact_target:    86588 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       504716 kB
LowFree:         40288 kB
SwapTotal:     1044184 kB
SwapFree:      1044184 kB
HugePages_Total:     0
HugePages_Free:      0
Hugepagesize:     4096 kB

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org] 
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:27 PM
To: golharam at umdnj.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: AS v3 Memory Usage


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote:
> I have a server running RedHat Enterprise Linux AS v3.  This server is

> simply running an NFS, LDAP, Flex, and print services.  The memory 
> usage on the machine is about 400 MB.  I checked the running processes

> to see how much memory they are using, and they only process using 
> anything significant is X at 146M, everything else is < 1M.

For starters, please give us the output of free, because many people
read that incorrectly and think they're using a lot more memory than
they really are.

You can also cat /proc/meminfo for some memory info.
-- 
Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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