On Tuesday 04 April 2006 08:59, Jon wrote: > ----- Start Original Message ----- > From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: CLUG General <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] What *Should* Linux Memory Management Look Like? > > > the important numbers in you screenshots there are the buffers/cached > > entries... > > Ah, OK. So the fact that is appears that almost all my RAM is 'used' isn't > indicative of a problem?
in fact, it's indicative that linux is being very, very smart and making the most of your resources. > > > there's an awful lot of apache2 and mysqld processed running. > > > > essentially there's a pool of workers that just wait for the next call to > > action (client request). > > Very good analogy - thanks. it's what i'm here for =P > How about my swap? The fact that it's not in use is..what...a good thing, > I'm guessing? yes.. if you start hitting swap in any sort of significant way (a few megs isn't unusual, though) then you know that you have more RAM than the workload actually requires. -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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