On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:
In this:
Mem: 16432240k total, 16344596k used, 87644k free, 27548k buffers
Swap: 10241428k total, 3680860k used, 6560568k free, 6230376k cached
The 6.2G cached is considered part of the 16G used
So it's not using more memory than it has. It's just the accounting
is inobvious.
This is a snapshot. The fact that 3.7GB of swap is used here suggests
there may have been more memory used at some point in the past then we're
seeing now; that's more what I was commenting on. A look at the si/so
figures in vmstat should nail down whether that's still going on or not
now, as Tom already suggested.
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