Re: Memory
Matthew Daubenspeck declaimed:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:21:08PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> > "Andrew Agno" <agno@AI.SRI.COM> writes:
> > > Matthew Daubenspeck writes:
> > > > I have been having some problems with my system eating up memory
> > > > lately. I ran top to check the memory status..
> > >
> > > The numbers you have don't look bad at all. It's when you start
> > > eating up large amounts of swap that you need to look into a problem.
> > > So if you're disk isn't thrashing when you're doing whatever you're
> > > doing, I wouldn't worry about it.
> >
> > Linux uses much (all?) of the available free memory for disk cache,
> > but releases this memory when/if an application requests memory. So if
> > you're system is healthy and you've been doing lots of file-system
> > activity you should see almost all the memory being used. Like Andrew
> > writes, the only time to worry is if Linux doesn't release memory when
> > an application requests it and start going to swap.
> >
> > In other words, you can't say that something is eating memory unless
> > you're trying to run an application and that app can't allocate
> > sufficient memory, assuming it's allocation request is reasonable
> > given your hardware.
>
> Thanks for both of the replies. I will watch it closely...
>
Check out xosview for a view of cache vs. swap. Of course, others will
have their favorite tools...
HTH, PM
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Paul Mackinney
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