Here is what free is giving me: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 504716 464096 40620 0 43612 311668 -/+ buffers/cache: 108816 395900 Swap: 1044184 0 1044184 cat /proc/meminfo: total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 516829184 475574272 41254912 0 44994560 319148032 Swap: 1069244416 0 1069244416 MemTotal: 504716 kB MemFree: 40288 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 43940 kB Cached: 311668 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 183164 kB ActiveAnon: 81308 kB ActiveCache: 101856 kB Inact_dirty: 192040 kB Inact_laundry: 57736 kB Inact_clean: 0 kB Inact_target: 86588 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 504716 kB LowFree: 40288 kB SwapTotal: 1044184 kB SwapFree: 1044184 kB HugePages_Total: 0 HugePages_Free: 0 Hugepagesize: 4096 kB ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 2:27 PM To: golharam@xxxxxxxxx; General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: AS v3 Memory Usage On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Ryan Golhar wrote: > I have a server running RedHat Enterprise Linux AS v3. This server is > simply running an NFS, LDAP, Flex, and print services. The memory > usage on the machine is about 400 MB. I checked the running processes > to see how much memory they are using, and they only process using > anything significant is X at 146M, everything else is < 1M. For starters, please give us the output of free, because many people read that incorrectly and think they're using a lot more memory than they really are. You can also cat /proc/meminfo for some memory info. -- Ed Wilts, RHCE Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@xxxxxxxxxx Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list