| From: | Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Waldomiro <waldomiro(at)shx(dot)com(dot)br>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux TOP |
| Date: | 2009-10-21 22:25:27 |
| Message-ID: | alpine.GSO.2.01.0910211819500.13048@westnet.com |
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> In this:
>
> Mem: 16432240k total, 16344596k used, 87644k free, 27548k buffers
> Swap: 10241428k total, 3680860k used, 6560568k free, 6230376k cached
>
> The 6.2G cached is considered part of the 16G used
>
> So it's not using more memory than it has. It's just the accounting
> is inobvious.
This is a snapshot. The fact that 3.7GB of swap is used here suggests
there may have been more memory used at some point in the past then we're
seeing now; that's more what I was commenting on. A look at the si/so
figures in vmstat should nail down whether that's still going on or not
now, as Tom already suggested.
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* Greg Smith gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
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