On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 20:57, Tushar Gupta wrote:

> The swap used on our server always shows 0 as seen by output of free
> command. Because of this our RAM gets fully used and server becomes
> slow.
> What may be the reason for this
            Total      used       free  shared buffers  cached
Mem:        512852     504164     8688    0    26104    352264
-/+ buffers/cache:     125796   387056
Swap:            0          0          0
Under Linux the free memory shown in first line is actually 
wasted/unused/un-utilized memory.
In the second line you can actually see the free memory which is a sum of 
cached+buffers+free.
Now as to why the server is slow can be dependent on many reasons.
What hardware and software configuration do you use.
Have you shutdown all the unused services etc.
A few kernel and HDD optimizations ( sysctl , hdparm ) may be in order.
Or better still a kernel recompile.
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