[CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
Can someone help clear up some confusion in reading memory usage in Top and System monitor. Here is a picture of both. http://s1176.photobucket.com/albums/x327/ionosphere2011/ Why does System Monitor show 1.7gb free out of 8gb. While Top shows all 8gb being used? If 1.7gb is free then it

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
Thanks for the replies. I checked free and that makes sense to me now. The only thing I cannot figure out is, if there is all this memory available why would swap space start building? I started checking all this out because the system slowed to a crawl after I noticed swap space being used

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-20 Thread Michael McNulty
I think I found my problem. I did not realize using /dev/shm as a ramdisk will create swap space. Is there a way to prevent the ramdisk from swapping to disk? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it?  That, or adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of your available memory with a ramdisk, demands for memory are going to have to be met by

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
. Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:35:47 +0200 From: office@plnet.rsSend To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏ Michael McNulty wrote: --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Perhaps by not storing so much stuff

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitorþ

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitorþ Michael McNulty wrote: Sorry, I am new to using the mailing list. I put RE: in the subject line thinking it would stay in the same thread but not sure why it did not work. So I turned of daily digest to reply and replying directly now

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
? To: centos@centos.org From: rnicholsnos...@comcast.net Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:28:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏ On 07/21/2011 03:20 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos

[CentOS] 6.2 x86_64 mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value

2012-04-11 Thread Michael McNulty
Hi, I have server that has been running 5.x - 5.8 for a few years without issue and decided to move it to a fresh install of 6.2. First thing I noticed is a good part of the log has these mtrr messages finally ending with mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value and please specify

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 x86_64 mtrr_cleanup: can not find optimal value

2012-04-12 Thread Michael McNulty
Phil Schaffner wrote on Thu Apr 12 10:19:15 EDT 2012 There was a recent forum thread [1] on this issue. Unfortunately it was never cleanly resolved, but you may find some suggestions there. It seems that unmatched memory modules may be a cause. Phil [1]

[CentOS] bind: root hints named.ca and named.root

2012-07-05 Thread Michael McNulty
For 6.x I have both of these files in my /var/named directory, probably copied when upgraded. named.ca date inside the file is dated 2008 and named.root is from a few months ago. Am I correct in assuming that named.ca is old and that I should be using named.root in my named.conf files? Is

[CentOS] Centos 6.5 workaround needed for selinux Could not open policy file bug

2014-05-20 Thread Michael McNulty
I read about this bug in the Centos 6.2 faq and the link showing it fixed in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769859 but I am still getting it updating on a Centos 6.5 server that had selinux disabled. I want to run selinux as permissive but it won't load now on reboot. I ran the yum

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 workaround needed for selinux Could not open policy file bug

2014-05-20 Thread Michael McNulty
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 13:52:54 -0400 From: dwa...@redhat.com To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 workaround needed for selinux Could not open policy file bug On 05/20/2014 12:50 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: I read about this bug