Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:31:00 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: Plenty of inactive memory |
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Andreas Grimm wrote: > Hello everybody, > > i got a weird problem with one of my servers. It's a Intel SR2500AL > with 32GB of RAM. > Looking at the memory usage of the system, something is going totally > wrong. The crucial numbers from /proc/meminfo are: > > MemTotal: 33265916 kB > MemFree: 416168 kB > Inactive: 24630428 kB (24GB? whooaaa) > > Another system with only 16GB, same amount of users and load, shows a > more normal behaviour: > > MemTotal: 16619808 kB > MemFree: 6912676 kB > Inactive: 1774364 kB > > Why does the 32GB-System have this plenty of inactive memory. Is there > a way to find out, what the kernel is holding in readiness? > > OS: SLES 10 SP1 > Kernel : 2.6.16.27-0.9-bigsmp > > Thanks in advance.
Doesn't sound unreasonable that most of that memory is not in active use, depending on the applications..
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