Re: memory usage....help....
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:03:54PM +0100, JSeverino@etek.cl wrote:
> Hi:
> Mem "used" is more big ?
> Mem "free" is more little ?
> whats......???
>
> thanks.....no speaken english....sorry
>
> 2:05pm up 2:39, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> 55 processes: 54 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
> CPU states: 0.1% user, 1.7% system, 0.0% nice, 98.0% idle
>
> Mem: 257744K av, 254608K used, 3136K free, 19252K shrd, 208584K buff
>
> Swap: 530104K av, 0K used, 530104K free 14764K
> cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 1307 root 4 0 552 552 452 S 0 1.1 0.2 0:03 syslogd
> 1545 root 15 0 860 860 668 R 0 0.7 0.3 0:04 top
> 1 root 0 0 380 380 308 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:37 init
> 2 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kflushd
> 3 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdate
> 4 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kpiod
> 5 root 0 0 0 0 0 SW 0 0.0 0.0 0:00 kswapd
> 6 root -20 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0 0.0 0.0 0:00
> mdrecoveryd
> 462 root 0 0 620 620 512 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 crond
> 476 root 0 0 488 488 416 S 0 0.0 0.1 0:00 inetd
> 485 named 0 0 1712 1712 924 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:00 named
> 487 named 0 0 1708 1708 920 S 0 0.0 0.6 0:00 named
> 561 root 0 0 652 652 436 S 0 0.0 0.2 0:00 rinetd
>
>
Run this through the altavista translator.... Anyone have an url?
Linux will use any extra memory for disk cache.
When apps need more memory, it will shrink the cache or use virtual memory.
Mike
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