[rhn-users] Hi Memory consuming High

[Simon Ball]

What's happening here is that the large transfer is mostly ending up in the disk cache in ram. The disk cache will take up ram, but be relinquished when other things need it (ie. it's as good as free memory, over 800meg of it in your case). The reason none of your swap is being used is because you do not in any way need it. Having zero swap usage is a very good thing, using swap instead of ram is a sign your machine is under-speced for the job.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419 provides a reasonably concise overview of the problem here.

simon

----- Original Message -----
From: ram <talk2ram at gmail.com>
To: Red Hat Network Users List <rhn-users at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2006 8:41:55 AM GMT+0000
Subject: [rhn-users] Hi Memory consuming High

Hi all

I have just installed  RHEL ES 4, with everything option
and disabled all the services, except my requirement

when i see free i have found most the RAM free 80% of 1GB RAM

after some time when i transfer data from another server to this server
95% RAM FULL,

is this something wrong with the RHEL ES Bugs ?

what is the tools to check and free the RAM

i have installed PIII Server with 1GB RAM.

how would i use SWAP instead of RAM. when iam using any application
most of the time my Swap is not at all used


[root at mail ~]# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1034148    1018396      15752          0      35928     869036
-/+ buffers/cache:     113432     920716
Swap:      1048568          0    1048568


ram


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