Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Apr 2008 22:31:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andreas Grimm <> | Subject | A plenty of inactive memory, but why? |
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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 (that's the definition of inactive memory afaik)?
OS: SLES 10 SP1 Kernel : 2.6.16.27-0.9-bigsmp
Thanks in advance.
Andreas Grimm
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