* Freeing Memory
@ 2003-09-23 2:16 David Tice
2003-09-23 5:05 ` Joakim Ryden
2003-09-23 7:23 ` Sven Pfeifer
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From: David Tice @ 2003-09-23 2:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
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.
Thanks
David
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* Re: Freeing Memory
2003-09-23 2:16 Freeing Memory David Tice
@ 2003-09-23 5:05 ` Joakim Ryden
2003-09-23 7:23 ` Sven Pfeifer
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From: Joakim Ryden @ 2003-09-23 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
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
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* Re: Freeing Memory
2003-09-23 2:16 Freeing Memory David Tice
2003-09-23 5:05 ` Joakim Ryden
@ 2003-09-23 7:23 ` Sven Pfeifer
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From: Sven Pfeifer @ 2003-09-23 7:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-admin
Hi David, hi list,
David Tice <dtice@wheatonma.edu> 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.
What does it mean, if you say "is being used"? Does it look like
this?
total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 529551360 476565504 52985856 97357824 172576768 229277696
This is no problem.
> Can someone give me some ideas on how to fix this.
How does the usage of your swap look like?
> Thanks
> David
Cheers
Sven
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