On 4/4/06, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have 160MB RAM on my VPS (yes, I know…I need more, but that's for another > day) and whenever I log on and check, it's always used up down to the last > 2-3MB, but not swapping yet. One part of me says that's good - Linux is using > as much real memory as possible before swapping. The other part of me says > that's bad because all my RAM is taken up. The server seems to responding > zippy fast, so everything looks OK from the outside, but there's an awful lot > of apache2 and mysqld processed running.
Thats exactly what it should look like :-) What's happening is Linux is using every bit of memory caching/buffering things for you so there is a chance they will load faster. The amount of "free" memory under the "-/+ buffers/cache" line is probably what you were expecting to see under top. This is your "real" amount of free memory. Most of the buffer/cache memory can be free'd quickly when needed with almost no performance hit. -Mark _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
