[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.

-- 
Rob K



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