Hey All, Is this off-topic? I've never quite gotten the grasp of what's considered fair-game on this list. Anything Linuxey seems to be OK :)
I'm primarily a desktop Linux guy, but I've recently got my sweaty hands on a VPS. This is forcing me to relearn a lot of stuff I used to know about Debian servers, and forcing me to pay attention to the things that I never bothered to learn. One of these things is how memory management *should* look. I have 160MB RAM on my VPS (yes, I know I need more, but that's for another day) and whenever I log on and check, it's always used up down to the last 2-3MB, but not swapping yet. One part of me says that's good - Linux is using as much real memory as possible before swapping. The other part of me says that's bad because all my RAM is taken up. The server seems to responding zippy fast, so everything looks OK from the outside, but there's an awful lot of apache2 and mysqld processed running. Anyhow, I've screen-capped the top, ps aux, and free commands and put them up on my blog. Can one or more of you guys with experience in this type of thing take a look at let me know if what I'm seeing is normal either on list, or commenting on the blog post itself? Link: http://www.jonwatson.ca/node/768 Thanks, I really appreciate it. Jon _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
