On Gwe, 2005-07-22 at 08:27 -0300, Vinicius wrote: > Hi all! > > I have a server with 2 Pentium 4 HT processors and 32 GB of RAM, this > server runs lots of applications that consume lots of memory to. When I stop > this applications, the kernel doesn't free memory (the memory still in use)
See any FAQ on the Linux memory management - memory is reclaimed when needed not when nobody is using it. That makes things more efficient. > and the server cache lots of memory (~27GB). When I start this applications, > the kernel sends "Out of Memory" messages and kill some random > applications. Some RHEL3 kernels had a problem with very large memory sizes and 2.4. That should not be the case in the current RHEL3 kernels. 2.6 handles very large systems a lot lot better, and of course the fact real computers now have 64bit processors has also rather improved life. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
