On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 21:42, Simon Bryan wrote: > Hi all, > Below is part of the 'top' display from one of my servers. Note that it is sorted on > Memory and that the top few use only 1.1% of memory, yet the summary at the top > would indicate that about 90% or more of memory was in use.
Nothing really more to add than what James said - Linux caches disk activity with spare RAM, and keeps a little around to hand out on the fly should it need to. Other than to note that worrying about free ram is kinda, um, Windowsish. You paid for the RAM, of course you want it to be used! Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
