Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 10:10 AM: > On 7/21/06, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> > wrote: >> Larry Vaden spake the following on 7/21/2006 8:05 AM: >> > Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k >> buffers >> > Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached >> > >> > SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. >> > >> > Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT >> > 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux >> > >> > rgds/ldv >> 144k of used swap is minimal. As ling as pages aren't actively >> swapping in and >> out, it is no big deal. > > OK, I agree that where there is smoke there is not always fire, but I > still prefer a smoke-free environment. > > rgds/ldv free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 4044784 3895936 148848 0 52400 2152500 -/+ buffers/cache: 1691036 2353748 Swap: 2031608 160 2031448 You see that mine seems to have the same "problem". Although since this machine has been up for a while, it has a lot of buffers filled. But when I run vmstat; vmstat -n 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 160 63160 45836 2287448 0 0 104 121 3 16 20 3 75 2 2 0 160 61936 45840 2288668 0 0 256 30 1217 12652 27 4 69 0 1 0 160 60192 45868 2290544 0 0 366 26 1249 12876 27 4 68 1 1 0 160 58976 45872 2291764 0 0 256 18 1200 12345 27 4 69 0 2 0 160 57744 45876 2293120 0 0 256 42 1223 13458 27 4 68 0 1 0 160 56472 45912 2294648 0 0 310 102 1232 12667 26 4 70 1 1 0 160 55280 45928 2295584 0 0 206 272 1208 12431 27 3 70 0 1 0 160 54144 45948 2296856 0 0 258 16 1186 12633 27 3 69 0 1 0 160 52648 45956 2298412 0 0 307 55 1222 13441 27 4 69 0 No swapin or swapout -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!