On Thursday 22 February 2007 14:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a little puzzled by this: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 5005084 4816352 188732 0 156644 3165540 > -/+ buffers/cache: 1494168 3510916 > Swap: 1052616 1052616 0 > > Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while > just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And > vmstat reports no usage of this swap space over a 15 minute period. > > What sort of utilities are around to analyse swap space? I'd like to get > an idea of exactly what's using all of that memory.
A perfect example to support my post about memory. More than 1G of your application ram is 'in use' but not being used. Keeping ram for cache where it is used is better than having it occupied and not in-use. Having said that, your example is a little unusual, but without doubt if you explained what you were doing sage heads would say 'cute'. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
