[H-GEN] Memory useage
Robert Kearey
mammal at optushome.com.au
Thu Oct 17 23:24:16 EDT 2002
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Harry Phillips wrote:
> I just checked my sever using top and it indicated the memory usage as
> Mem: 255760K av, 252012K used, 3748K free
> Is it normal to have less than 4M free out of 256M?
Depends. How much swap is in use? How big is the buffer-cache?
Normally, it's fine. No sense second-guessing VM's these days on any
*n*x unless you're a VM guru.
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Rob K
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