On 5/15/07, Gideon Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/15/07, jan gestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 16414484 14929724 1484760 0 121552 13291244 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1516928 14897556 > Swap: 2031608 0 2031608 > > as you can see almost all of RAM is consumed, and I can't figure out what > process is causing this, I already tried turning off process one at a time > to determine what's causing the high memory to no avail. 13291244 No, most of the memory was allocated to the disk caching. If your applications need more RAM, some of the disk cache would be freed as needed.
exactly, see your cache went up nearly 13GB. In Linux,unix,bsd,etc..unused memory will be used as cache to speed up disk read/write. If your apps need more memory, then some of the cache would be free as needed. The bottom line in here is that, memory used as cache would be thought of as free memory. warren --
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