Re: How to monitor resources on Linux.

jallgood(at)the-allgoods(dot)net writes:
> This is interesting. We are running a 32bit kernel.

On an Opteron? Why in the world are you doing that?

> The output from free -l -m. I believe the High and Low are like
> watermarks for lack of another word.

Uh, no, you are dead wrong. In a 32-bit machine low memory is the first
physical GB or so, and high memory is the rest, and there are certain
things that have to be in low memory because the hardware won't cope
otherwise. Thus, you can run out of lowmem even when there's scads of
free memory in highmem.

If you've got more than about a GB of physical RAM you need to be
running a 64-bit kernel; otherwise you're wasting your hardware.

regards, tom lane