On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: Fire up xosview and you'll see that a significant portion of your memory is used for caching purposes. Don't worry, this is normal.
-Pete > Hi. > > I'm having a very strange problem with 3 of my Linux servers. Actually I > noticed this > problem approximately 1 year ago when I started to use Linux servers with my > Solaris boxes. > I'm going to describe the problem as best I can. Sorry for my bad English. > > Notice, I always use Red Hat 7.1(Seawolf) with latest kernels. > > I configured a server few months ago, that would serve a very little http > requests > and ftp server for small users and mysql. This server was inside a LAN so I > configured my router > to port map certain ports. This server is in use of max 5 users, and maybe > 1-2users at same time. > The server is a AMD K6-300Mhz with 256MB in ram. and 512 in Swap Space. > Always after 3-6days the server has no more then between 3-15Mb in ram left > of 256MB. > It's unbelievable how this rocks between 3-6 days after reboot. Where is my > RAM? > Who is eating up my memory? When I do "top" it shows the processes that > should be running, > fine by that. > > And another server has this problem. And I can't believe that it should do > this to that > powerful machine. I have a 1200Mhz, 512MB in RAM, 7200MB IBM HD that serves > as a firewall > and a gateway for my company. Approximately 70 Users. Its running Kernel > 2.4.10 > And now this machine has been up and running for 3days and it has only 145MB > of 512MB. > That means that 355MB of ram is somewhere and I cant find it!. > > Another server. With the latest kernel 2.4.10. 256MB in ram and it has been > up and running > for 3hours and it only got 3MB of ram of 256MB. What f*** is going on. > Please can > anyone tell me. This server only serves FTP Accounts, and it has only got > one user on it > today. > > Any suggestions and help appreciated > > > > > Svavar Örn Eysteinsson > Kerfisstjóri / Hugbúnaðarsmiður > System Administrator / Software Developer > Fíton ehf. - hönnun og auglýsingar > Garðastræti 37 - IS-101 Reykjavík > Sími 595 3600 / fax 595 3649 > www.fiton.is / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > -- Peter Vertes [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Friends don't let friends use Windows" _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
