Subject: Re: Memory usage
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Nov 12 2003 - 18:28:49 AKST
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:17, Barsalou wrote:
>
> Is it normal for the memory usage to use all memory in the machine? Or
> What should "normal" memory usage on the machine look like?
>
> --
> Barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>
Depends on what you mean by 'using all the memory'
If you do a 'cat /proc/meminfo'
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 1058816000 1047433216 11382784 0 312156160 508268544
Swap: 1042235392 94355456 947879936
This shows all memory 'used' but look at buffers & cached. This is
memory that is available to use, the memory manager takes care of
swapping out pages, if necessary. You are out of memory when the OOM
Killer starts killing apps :)
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