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As far as I know, your system should be stable. The details of how |
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much memory/swap is used at any given moment probably depends on your |
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kernel, how much memory you have, etc. |
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Do you have any actual evidence of the slow down you mentioned? the |
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system should begin using swap when/if it needs to. it looks to me |
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like you discovered the "free" command and are seeing problems where |
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none exist. |
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On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:53:58 +0200, lukas <lukas@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 31 July 2004 02:42, Gyujin Park wrote: |
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> > Does this mean the system will be still stable with 99% memory usage? |
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> > I mean, at some point it should turn into swap. The system reaches up |
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> > to 99% physical memory usage with less than 3 MB of physical memory |
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> > left. |
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> "free" gives me the following outout on my workstation: |
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> total used free shared buffers cached |
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> Mem: 1550840 1308096 242744 0 94244 859148 |
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> -/+ buffers/cache: 354704 1196136 |
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> Swap: 522104 23868 498236 |
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> About 84% memory is used. But about 900MB are used for caching and |
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> buffering, so in fact there are only about 346MB in "real use". |
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> If your memory is 99% without buffers and cache, then there is |
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> something wrong (but I don't know what). |
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> Can you see a process that consumes that much memory when you are |
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> calling "ps" or "top"? |
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> What kind of kernel do you use? |
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> cu |
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> lukas |
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