Thanks. But, what I fail to understand is why swap is not used at all on this server. Swap used always shows zero. In another server I see swap gets used as needed. I am suspecting this to be reason of problem with this server.
Can anyone suggest what can cause swap used to always remain at zero. total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 513348 130136 383212 0 11792 55348 -/+ buffers/cache: 62996 450352 Swap: 1052216 0 1052216 Thanks again, Tushar -----Original Message----- From: Tarun Dua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 10:55 AM To: Linux Users Group Delhi Subject: Re: [ilugd]: swap usage 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. -- http://www.tarundua.net Nothing you ever wanted to find about Tarun Dua ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
