Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (314 mails)

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin Carter wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 March 2005 15:29, Brad Bourn wrote:
>  
>
> > On Wednesday 30 March 2005 10:28 am, Colin Carter wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > I am having the same messages/values with one gig of RAM.
> > > With just KMail running it says that 92% of memory is in use.
> > > (Zero swapped out.)
> > > I also note that the processes listed under top are only
> > > totalling to about 15% of memory (13.6% being X).  Where
> > > is the discrepancy between the 15% and the 92% ?
> > >      
> > Am I having the same problem?
> >    
>
> No, Not in this sense; just that most of the RAM seems to be 'consumed',
> even though the O.S. has nothing to put into it.
> Well, I'll worry tomorrow.
> Cheers,
> Colin
>  
>
> > top - 22:27:44 up 4 days, 21:11,  7 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> > Tasks: 111 total,   1 running, 110 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu(s): 48.8% us,  9.4% sy,  0.2% ni, 41.2% id,  0.2% wa,  0.2% hi,  0.0%
> > si Mem:   1023884k total,   907608k used,   116276k free,    50280k buffers
> > Swap:  1052216k total,   200264k used,   851952k free,   474588k cached
> >
> >  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >    1 root      16   0   640   72  492 S  0.0  0.0   0:01.10 init
> >    2 root      34  19     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
> >    3 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.44 events/0
> >    4 root       6 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khelper
> >    5 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 netlink/0
> >    6 root       8 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kacpid
> >   29 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.29 kblockd/0
> >   42 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.13 pdflush
> >   44 root       7 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
> >   43 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:03.30 kswapd0
> >  628 root      24   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
> > 1373 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
> > 1375 root      21   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
> > 1376 root      21   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_1
> > 1481 root      19   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_2
> > 1482 root      20   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_3
> > 1492 root       5 -10     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.79 reiserfs/0
> > 1674 root      16   0  2460  388 2288 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 startpar
> > 2804 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khubd
> > 2882 root       5 -10  2444  292 2280 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 udevd
> > 3778 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 khpsbpkt
> > 3806 root      15   0     0    0    0 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 knodemgrd_0
> > 3826 root      15   0  2568  344 2276 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 hwscand
> > 7014 root      16   0  3548  608 3368 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.84 syslogd
> > 7064 root      16   0  2720  716 2292 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.17 klogd
> > 7232 root      16   0  8240  696 8064 S  0.0  0.1   0:01.38 resmgrd
> > 7290 nobody    16   0  4560  468 4376 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.00 portmap
> >
> >
> > B-)
> >    

Type in 'free -m' at a shell prompt & see what it says, the kernel 
sponges up RAM for buffers, but releases it when any app wants it, the 
free command will tell you about that .... YMMV & all that ;-).

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	William A. Mahaffey III
	Huntsville, Al.