On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 17:35 +0530, Roshan George wrote: > I'll check with them and see.
Just thought I'd bring closure to this thread. While the RAM usage wouldn't show up under Buffers/Cache, it did drop to expected use as soon as I required the extra RAM (by mallocing up a few megabytes). I assume this is how this hypervisor (the vmware one, I think) works. Since I have since not noticed any performance issues any more, I think what I was experiencing was unrelated and so I've decided to just let things be. This is how things worked. `free` would report > 900 MB of RAM after subtracting buffers/cache but when I ate up that last 100 MB or so, `free` would report ~ 300 MB which is much closer to what I'd expect. Releasing the memory and then waiting for a long time would result in that usage jumping again. Swap is untouched at all times. Funny, eh? Regards, -- Roshan George _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
