Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:28:28 +0200 | From | "Andreas Grimm" <> | Subject | Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory |
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Hi,
the output of free: -/+ buffers/cache: 30718212 2547704 Information in frees man page is very sparse, what's the interpretation? I will try the drop_cache thing in the night. Thanks!
2008/4/9, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>: > Hi > > > > i know this. But why the kernel locks that memory for a so long time > > (2 days now)? > > > maybe, page cache consume it. > it isn't mean that waste memory. > > > Is there a way to enforce the reclaiming? > > following command drop all cache. (but I don't reccomend it) > > # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > > > > And how can i > > find out, which process owns that memory. > > > please use free command and see second line(+ buffer/cache'ed free mem). > > > > The problem is, that i can't > > accept, that the free memory fell down to 50MB, when i have 24GB in > > the nirvana. The system was recently very close to the awkward > > situation to swap to disk, and i bet it will do so in the next few > > days, because it happened before. Unintelligible, if one got that much > > ram. > > > may be, it is not happend forever. >
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