used doesn't mean used by an active process, it means used by an active process or a file recently opened and still in memory. these files can be anything from the contents of a directory or an image or a database. 2.4.18 is out these days, if there is an rpm try it, it seems very stable. Ewan On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 20:02, Christoph Ruepprich wrote:
Why do you want to? If I'm reading it right you aren't using any swap. When the system needs more memory it should dump the old unused programs. Until then it will use the memory to cache.
Am I interpreting the output wrong? I was under the impression that 'used' means that the memory is actually being used by some process. Does the 'used' column act more like a high water mark?
What kernel are you running? If it's 2.4 prior to 2.4.10, you should upgrade the kernel because they were trying out new vm code and took a while to get it right.
I'm on 2.4.7 (the one that came with SLES7 originally). I'll give 2.4.10 a try.
Christoph>
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