William Warren wrote:
your mahcine is fine. swap is at zero. You have most of your ram
being used by cache. This is also normal for a linux machine. If an
application needs to ram being used for file caching the kernel will
clear out that portion of cache and the program will have access to it.
I finally figured that out this morning. I see how the free command
gives me better insight to my computer than top. At least for how my
memory is managing with my apps.
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Below is both results...
William Warren wrote:
easier way....log in as root and type the word free to get a much
slimmer version of that information. If the numbers look odd(after
posting them here) then the more expansive option below is needed.
Alfred von Campe wrote:
I install centos 5 on a HD while it is in a Compaq with 256Mb
memory. After install, i am in graphics mode (Gnome) and top
reports not quite all 256Mb used.
Then I move the HD to a decTOP with 512Mb memory. I am running
non-graphics (init 3). I ssh into the unit and top reports not
quite all of that used.....
So what ate up more than 256Mb memory (X is not running)?
Perhaps there is something I did not clean up properly wrt the move.
Have you done any I/O on the system? The memory could be in use by
buffers. Please post the contents of /proc/meminfo. Your real free
memory should be the sum of MemFree + Buffers + Cached.
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 495228 488440 6788 0 21404 310364
-/+ buffers/cache: 156672 338556
Swap: 1572856 0 1572856
MemTotal: 495228 kB
MemFree: 12468 kB
Buffers: 22328 kB
Cached: 301152 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 272448 kB
Inactive: 182272 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 495228 kB
LowFree: 12468 kB
SwapTotal: 1572856 kB
SwapFree: 1572856 kB
Dirty: 21356 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 131252 kB
Mapped: 36676 kB
Slab: 20784 kB
PageTables: 3312 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1820468 kB
Committed_AS: 394416 kB
VmallocTotal: 524280 kB
VmallocUsed: 3080 kB
VmallocChunk: 521072 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB
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