Fw: Memory issue

[Redouane N.]

Hello All,

Top Output:
Mem: 16149860k av, 16070108k used, 79752k free, 0k shrd, 46032k buff

8202364k actv, 5599824k in_d, 298548k in_c

Swap: 2044072k av, 158168k used, 1885904k free



I did not understand what is going on " memory Leak "

maybe....



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cameron Simpson" <cs at zip.com.au>
To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Memory issue


> On 07Mar2007 09:03, Redouane N. <redouane at ccs.com.jo> wrote:
> | I am using Red Hat AS version 3 update 4 to run oracle applications.
> | We have 16GB RAM and 4 cpus with 2 GB of swap...
> | But what is happening here is that the 16GB ram is always used by what??
>
> The buffer cache will probabloy use as much RAM as you have available,
> over time. This is fine, and desirable; it maximises the likelihood that
> an attempt to read data will find it already in RAM. If RAM is needed
> for something else, any RAM allocated to buffers that have not been
> modified (i.e. data that's been read and just kept) can be release for
> immediate use.
>
> | i dunno! even the swap is getting full...
>
> Really. That's unusual unless your apps are genuinely large. What does 
> "top"
> show?
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