<quote who="Melinda Taylor">
> 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!
First recommendation is to search the archives for explanations about how
Linux reports on memory usage. There have been a number of good ones
throughout SLUG's history. :-)
- Jeff
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