Thanks for the replies. I checked free and that makes sense to me now. The only thing I cannot figure out is, if there is all this memory available why would swap space start building?
I started checking all this out because the system slowed to a crawl after I noticed swap space being used which does not make sense to me if there is available memory. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8301448 7917100 384348 0 59984 6009248 -/+ buffers/cache: 1847868 6453580 Swap: 4128760 1225896 2902864 btw - this is Centos 5.6 box using the PAE kernel. 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5PAE |
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