On 11/03/2009 07:16 PM, Subbiah Stalin-XCGF84 wrote:
All,
I'm trying to understand the free memory usage and why it falls below
17G sometimes and what could be causing it. Any pointers would be
appreciated.
r...@prod1 # prtconf
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u
Memory size: 32768 Megabytes
[postg...@prod1 ~]$ vmstat 5 10
kthr memory page disk faults
cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr 1m 1m 1m m1 in sy cs us
sy id
0 0 0 51713480 21130304 58 185 325 104 104 0 0 23 3 7 1 488 604 573 1
2 97
0 0 0 51048768 18523456 6 10 0 192 192 0 0 4 0 3 0 527 753 807 2
1 97
Memory used by the OS for caching files is no longer free.
Free memory is wasted memory.
-J
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