I just noticed after using dump that 100% of the memory in my system is
now in use. I check this also on my linux laptop, after using
'dump' my 412 MB ram had only 12k free.
The command free shows:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 514328 502352 11976 0 4476 345684
-/+ buffers/cache: 152192 362136
Swap: 875500 0 875500
Similarly in my server, after issuing a dump command the whole 3GB of
physical RAM is used! Even after dump is finished the ram isn't freed (I
am running redhat 7.3).
How do I recover the ram in situation like this. With mylaptop I can
reboot with the server I can't!
Can anyone recommend tools for checking and monitoring such things.
Many Thanks,
Melinda
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