[rhn-users] Memory usage on rhel box

Anirudha Sonar anirudha.sonar at gmail.com
Thu Oct 5 09:58:26 UTC 2006


Are you using hugemem kernel ?

On 10/4/06, Sudhir Damle <sudhir at stratogent.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have rhel box with kernel 2.6, with 4 GB ram, I am expecting it to use
> most of the memory for disk cache and show very little memory as free,
> similar to other boxes.
>
> The cached size is only 818 MB, and free memory is 2661 MB, Any ideas why
> this machine is behaving differently than others.
>
> /proc/meminfo is below.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sudhir Damle
>
>
>
> MemTotal:      4147196 kB
> MemFree:       2661124 kB
> Buffers:         61568 kB
> Cached:         818012 kB
> SwapCached:          0 kB
> Active:         938124 kB
> Inactive:       456668 kB
> HighTotal:     3276544 kB
> HighFree:      1966592 kB
> LowTotal:       870652 kB
> LowFree:        694532 kB
> SwapTotal:     2097144 kB
> SwapFree:      2096984 kB
> Dirty:            5000 kB
> Writeback:           0 kB
> Mapped:         594788 kB
> Slab:            71684 kB
> Committed_AS:  1072320 kB
> PageTables:       6428 kB
> VmallocTotal:   106488 kB
> VmallocUsed:      3124 kB
> VmallocChunk:   103124 kB
> HugePages_Total:     0
> HugePages_Free:      0
> Hugepagesize:     2048 kB
>
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Regards,
Anirudha Sonar
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