Re: troubleshooting slow disk writes on squeeze.

[Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
>
> That sounds more like it is swapping now when before it was not.  Is
> there now a process running that is consuming more memory?  What does
> 'cat /proc/meminfo' say about memory usage?  (Although I have gotten
> lazy and rely much upon 'htop' to show me the usage.)  What does
> 'vmstat' say in the 'si' and 'so' columns?
>


Ok I managed to get all data you asked :-)

At this moment

srv1:~# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3956       3538        418          0          0        181
-/+ buffers/cache:       3356        600
Swap:         9538         51       9486

Vmstat 5 output is here


http://pastie.org/1240013

cat /proc/meminfo' taken 3 times is here

http://pastie.org/1240016

Am I running short on RAM?

doesn't this

-/+ buffers/cache:       3356        600

say I still have 600 MB free RAM at this point?

thanks

--Siju