From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joakim Ryden Subject: Re: Freeing Memory Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 22:05:34 -0700 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200309222205.34263.jryden@thebox.our-own.net> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030922221143.00abc460@mail2.wheatonma.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030922221143.00abc460@mail2.wheatonma.edu> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org On Monday 22 September 2003 19:16, David Tice wrote: > Please help > > I have a dell 2400 power edge server with an external ZZYZX powerraid u2. > The system has 2 CPUs and 1 gig of memory and 2 gig swap. I am running > redhat 7.2 . The system is IO bound and almost all of memory is being used. > Can someone give me some ideas on how to fix this. 1) Use top, ps, sar, /proc and try to figure out which software is eating the most memory. Then either a) fix the software yourself or b) kindly ask the author of the software what is going on or c) find equivalent software from other author/vendor and use that instead. 2) Is the box just maxed out? Get more RAM. --Jo