The lpar is intended to run a java based timesheet application using postgrel as its
database. The following is the output from "FREE"
>linux141:/ # free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 773612 768736 4876 0 161500 430968
-/+ buffers/cache: 176268 597344
Swap: 300072 1508 298564
linux141:/ #
Next is the output from "TOP"
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
11592 root 17 0 1020 1016 788 R 18.3 0.1 0:14 top
1:41am up 7 days, 15:40, 2 users, load average: 0.08, 0.05, 0.01
83 processes: 82 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.0% user, 8.5% system, 0.0% nice, 91.4% idle
Mem: 773612K av, 768928K used, 4684K free, 0K shrd, 161504K buff
Swap: 300072K av, 1508K used, 298564K free 430968K cached
Please help me on how can I interpret this info. Does it mean I still have a lot of
memory left according to "FREE"command
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> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 10:01
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: SuSe Linux 8 - LPAR
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> How much memory is cached? On the zSeries that is essentially 'extra'
> memory that is overallocated. What is this LPAR intended to do?
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:58, Moloko Monyepao wrote:
> > One question that I currently have is how we interpret the "TOP" command in Linux
> > when running Linux on the Mainframe on an Lpar. E.g. If we allocate 1GB of memory
> > to that lpar, the TOP command show that memory allocated is 1GB and memory used is
> > very close to 1GB. There is only a few users logged in. I just wonder what will
> > happen if we let users start using the application. Is this memory ging to cater
> > for these users?
> > What tools do we use to keep stats if running Linux on an Lpar, not under VM?
> >
> > Thanx in advance
> > Moloko
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