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 ;-). -- William A. Mahaffey III Huntsville, Al.