From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michael_W=FCnsch?= Subject: Re: high memory usage on Linux host Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:43:55 +0100 Message-ID: <4CD7C65B.7020706@gmx.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org > The host has apache , java running and one our custom application . > But these applications are just running and are not serving any > traffic . Have you looked into your -Xms or similar options for Java? If you are giving it a high initial value, it will not drop below that. Also what do you perceive as high memory usage? 77% of your memory are free (subtracting the caches). Regards, -- Michael W=FCnsch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html