[CentOS] cache memory not being used

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Thu Oct 20 20:22:24 UTC 2005


18 megs of swap with a gig installed is nothing significant.  As far as 
cached memory not being used.  If xorg is using 750 megs of ram there's 
not a whole bunch left for a file cache after the other applications are 
also allocated.


Dave wrote:
> Since I upgraded to 4.2 it looks like the cache memory doesn't go over
> about 70K or so. I have over 700K free and it started using swap,
> which doesn't normally happen for a few days or so. Any hints on what
> might be up?
> 
>  This is just after a compile and the cached is only 75k
> total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:       1032848     263992     768856          0       4612      75628
> -/+ buffers/cache:     183752     849096
> Swap:      1052248      18260    1033988
> 
> 
> 
> On a side note, anyone able to have Xorg running for more then 14
> days? It consumes about 750megs after 14 days or so.
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