-----Original Message----- From: Alex Tabony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 3:14 PM Subject: Memory usage / management >I have a redhat 7 machine with 256mb ram running Samba for file/print >serving and mail services for 30 windows clients. I have been observing the >memory usage on the machine and I am a bit confused. > >Right now there are about 5 users logged in via Samba. Mail is down. Free >gives me: > > total used free shared buffers cached >Mem: 257660 195060 62600 70256 137416 22812 >-/+ buffers/cache: 34832 222828 >Swap: 265032 0 265032 >Total: 522692 195060 327632 > >The weird thing, is that later on today when no one is on the system, free >will give me almost the exact same numbers. Why are not the buffers and >cache getting flushed (right word?). I've been watching the memory usage >for the last few days and it stays about the same no matter how the system >is being used. > >There is not much running on the system. As you can see all the memory is >tied up in buffers. Shouldn't these get cleaned up by update when they are >done being used? It makes me anxious thinking that user files are being >stored in system memory and never getting written to disk. > This is standard behavior for linux. It just sets up buffers when the ram isn't needed by running programs, to improve performance. It's nothing to worry about. Jeff Hogg _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
