Ryan, From what I have read on memory usage in Red Hat ES the system will use what it needs for programs and use the rest for cache. If you take the amount of memory used (475574272) minus the amount cached (319148032) from the /proc/meminfo file you will have the amount that the system is actually using for programs. -- Jason Huddleston, CCSA Assistant Coordinator Internet Services and Security Ozarks Technical Community College huddlesj@xxxxxxx 417-895-7798 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ryan Golhar Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:44 PM To: 'Ed Wilts'; 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list' Subject: RE: AS v3 Memory Usage 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 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
