Re: Memory and/or cache issues?

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:27:10AM -0400, mcelroy, tim wrote:
>Sorry, been up all night and maybe provided too much information or not the
>right information and only confused folks, tired I guess. When I say 'in
>use' I am referring to the 'used' column.

Which is a mostly irrelevant number.

>Here's free from PROD001:
>[root(at)wbibsngwyprod001 kernel]# free -k -t
> total used free shared buffers cached
>Mem: 7643536 6975772 667764 0 165496 5393396
>-/+ buffers/cache: 1416880 6226656
>Swap: 8185108 5208 8179900
>Total: 15828644 6980980 8847664

You've got 1.4G in use, 5.3G of disk cache, 165M of buffers and 667M
free. That doesn't seem unreasonable. If an application needs more
memory the amount of disk cache will decrease. As I said in an earlier
email, the problem is that the application is trying to allocate a bogus
amount of memory, not that you have a memory problem.

Mike Stone