> The host has apache , java running and one our custom application . > But these applications are just running and are not serving any > traffic . Have you looked into your -Xms or similar options for Java? If you are giving it a high initial value, it will not drop below that. Also what do you perceive as high memory usage? 77% of your memory are free (subtracting the caches). Regards, -- Michael Wünsch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html