> Hi, > > After days of work, without rebooting my box, it suddenly slowed down. > My filesystem is just > 41% of the total size that my hard disk can hold. I executed "free" to > check on the available > memory resources. I found the following information: > > > [edelarosa@eadelarosa xxx]$ free > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 505220 428728 76492 0 16860 195208 > -/+ buffers/cache: 216660 288560 > Swap: 1052248 194312 857936 > > > > Well, I don't really want to reboot my box. Is there a way that I could > refresh (or probably > release the unused) resources of my box? After all, some of my > previously used > applications (eclipse, jboss, and mysql) have been shutdown for quite a > long while now. Okay, I'm going to out-and-out say that I have no idea whether what I'm about to say is gonna help you or not, but it can't hurt. RH9 came with a cache-swap bug that's easily fixed. It's discussed in the thread below: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/shrike-list/2003-August/msg00329.html Basically, from root, type: /sbin/sysctl -w vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" Then edit your /etc/sysctl.conf and add the line: vm.bdflush="30 500 0 0 2560 15360 60 20 0" If this is your problem, then the command line deal *should* speed you up pretty quickly... HTH, Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
