Dear Pablo, Why are you restarting snmpd between flushing cache and reading memory values? On a running system you can probably expect the cache to immediately start to fill after a flush anyway. y Ben On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Pablo Silva wrote: > Dear Readers: > > My boss has entrusted me to analyze why the memory buffers are > not released a Linux server with Centos 6.4.? > > As informs me, the current reading is: > > > [root@bck ~]# free -m > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 15936 15788 147 0 6746 438 > -/+ buffers/cache: 8604 7332 > Swap: 2047 0 2047 > [root@bck ~]# > [root@bck ~]# > [root@bck ~]# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && service snmpd > restart && free -m > Stopping snmpd: [ OK ] > Starting snmpd: [ OK ] > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 15936 509 15426 0 93 16 > -/+ buffers/cache: 400 15536 > Swap: 2047 0 2047 > [root@bck ~]# > > I can not find the solution to release the memory buffer and cache > memory so grateful for any hint for finding the solution to this > "problem". > > -Paul > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
