From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Pfeifer Subject: Re: Freeing Memory Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 09:23:26 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030923072326.GA2097@yagonna.de> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030922221143.00abc460@mail2.wheatonma.edu> Reply-To: Sven Pfeifer Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030922221143.00abc460@mail2.wheatonma.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi David, hi list, 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. 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 Linux-User #252536 (http://counter.li.org) -- Boy, backups sure are a lot faster since I linked /dev/st0 to /dev/null... ------------------------------------------------------[rand. sig. #10]