Red Hat memory allocation

[Shaw, Marco]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Yard, John
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 3:52 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Red Hat memory allocation
> 
> 
> On a Red Hat 3.2 system running Sun Directory Server
> Sun DS had a virtual memory failure and hung
> while I was running a system stress test.
> 
> The test involved running 30 DS entry scans.
> 
> I noticed that the steady-state memory behavior of the system
> leaves only 1% or less of the system memory in the free pool:

http://sourcefrog.net/weblog/software/linux-kernel/free-mem.html

Marco
RHCE