Real Memory Usage

[Ed Wilts]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 12:59:24PM -0500, Bill Matthews wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a box running RHEL 3 with 2GB of RAM.  I am graphing memory
> usage with MRTG.
> 
> The box consistant runs at 5% CPU, but 95% memory usage.  So something
> is using a heck of a lot of RAM.  

That would be your cache.  Run free and it will quickly tell you.

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