If I may jump in on this...
At 02:07 AM 2/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>The question is: Do you end up using any swap or not?
>
>This gets discussed frequently... at least to the point about how Linux
>reports low numbers of free memory... but what is reported and what is
>actual are usually two different things. If you have 2GB of RAM and you
>don't actually use any swap, then I wouldn't worry. Linux will clean up
>the allocation tables as needed.
The question comes up, what does one do when swap is starting to be used?
I ask because I am having some odd memory usage problems here. After a
fresh reboot I am seeing about 44MB of the 256 MB total as used. As times
goes on, the cached and buffers grow. Now again I would not be worried but
this is what free is reporting right now:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 257660 253556 4104 33052 81252 149412
-/+ buffers/cache: 22892 234768
Swap: 530104 9612 520492
I have been observing the memory usage for the last few weeks, and this
happens consistently. Over the matter of days, buffers and cache grow to
fill and exceed the available memory (excepting a tiny amount).
This machine is working as a file/print share and as a mail server with pop
access for about 20 clients. The process list shows nothing out of the
ordinary. CPU usage is less than <5%.
Any ideas?
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