Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

[Steve Kowalik <steven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:16:04 +1100, Peter Hardy uttered
> I'm a little puzzled by this:
> 
>               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        5005084    4816352     188732          0     156644    3165540
> -/+ buffers/cache:     1494168    3510916
> Swap:       1052616    1052616          0
> 
> Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while
> just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And
> vmstat reports no usage of this swap space over a 15 minute period.
> 
I might be barking up the wrong tree, but do you have one or more
tmpfs'es that are full of files? tmpfs is swap-backed RAM, which neatly
explains the completly full swap, and also the fact that vmstat doesn't
report any swapping at all.

Cheers,
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					Steve
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