On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:10 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: > List, I've installed my CentOS Server running progress 9.1D database > system, with only 15 users working every day, this server has 2GB RAM, > so, my question is: > Why the 2GB of RAM is always used? Even with only one user connected... > How can I messuare the real RAM MEM used by my system split in proccess? > Is there another tools which I use to compare the results from top. Or > vmstat? > Linux uses all the memory (on purpose). It uses it as recoverable cache and buffers ... which it can release the oldest parts of if necessary to give it to real processes. In vmstat ... take: Actual_RAM - buffers - cached = Real RAM in use in CentOS-4's top ... same thing: Actual - Buffers - cached = Real Ram in Use -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050530/12ca666d/attachment-0005.sig>