On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a little question about memory usage... > > When I do a free, I get: /proc/meminfo may give you a more detailed summary. /Peter > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 18482800 18030668 452132 0 683068 9426792 > -/+ buffers/cache: 7920808 10561992 > > But, when I do a ps, mysql is the only process that takes noticable memory; > and it is far from 7.9GBs... > > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > mysql 28346 36.0 15.6 3241196 2884692 ? Sl Jul04 981:19 \_ > /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr --datadir=/IOL/mysql --user=mysql > --pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid --skip-external-locking --port=3306 > --socket=/IOL/mysql/mysql.sock > > Once you removed the buffers and the cached memory from the total used > memory... what is left? Looks like I have "something" (that is not > buffers/cached) that takes more than 4GB... Could it be disk cache or is it > included in the cached value? > Any idea? > > Thx, > JD -------------- 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/20090706/dea8cad6/attachment-0005.sig>