Re: Memory Settings

[Don MacAskill <onethumb onethumb com>]

FYI, I was having similar problems on my 8GB AMD64 machine.

I finally turned swap off entirely and things have been much more 
steady, performance-wise.

Seems rather silly that this is happening.  :(

Don


List Account wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running RHEL 3.0 on a Dell 1750 with 1GB of RAM.  The server is 
> having problems where all of the memory is going to buffer and cache 
> according to top, which causes the server to swap and makes performance 
> go down the toilet.  If I reboot the server, it will behave normally for 
> up to a month, but this problem always comes back.  I've looking for 
> information on setting limits for buffer and cache, but I can't seem to 
> find any.  Does anyone know how to limit these two settings so they'll 
> stop taking all of the memory?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Howard
>
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