Re: Tons of free RAM. Can't make it go away.

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On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:35:32 -0500
Shaun Thomas <sthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey everyone!
> 
> This is pretty embarrassing, but I've never seen this before. This is 
> our system's current memory allocation from 'free -m':
> 
>               total       used       free     buffers     cached
> Mem:         72485      58473      14012           3      34020
> -/+ buffers/cache:      24449      48036
> 
> So, I've got 14GB of RAM that the OS is just refusing to use for disk
> or page cache. Does anyone know what might cause that?

Maybe it's not needed? What make you think the OS shall allocate all the
memory? 
-- 
Frank Lanitz <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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