Sorry, I am new to using the mailing list. I put RE: in the subject line thinking it would stay in the same thread but not sure why it did not work. So I turned of daily digest to reply and replying directly now. Apologies if this reply did not work.
---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:35:47 +0200 > From: office@plnet.rsSend > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor > > Michael McNulty wrote: > > --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols <rnicholsnos...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > >> Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it? That, or > >> adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of > >> your available memory with a ramdisk, demands for memory are going to have > >> to be met by pushing pages out to swap space. By default, a > >> ramdisk can grow to up to half of the available RAM after the kernel has > >> been > >> loaded. If programs and I/O buffers need more than the other memory > >> you have available, what option is there besides swap? > >> > > > > Actually I am not storing too much stuff in it since there is plenty of > > free memory. That was the point of my earlier posts asking why swap when > > there is plenty of free memory. > > > > Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe behavior is unused files in > > /dev/shm use swap space? I want to make it so it does not do that since it > > slows the system down > > and since there is plenty of available free memory. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > Could you please use regular reply option? I can now see 3 separate > threads with the same name,and they are only your thread(s). Thanks > > -- > > Ljubomir Ljubojevic > (Love is in the Air) > PL Computers > Serbia, Europe > > Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your > trusty Spiderman... > StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
