Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread John J. Boyer
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is absolutely normal to have Free Memory go down to a fairly small level and have Buffers and Cache grow. Why does Linux do this? It seems odd to me. If you are

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/13/2011 05:32 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is absolutely normal to have Free Memory go down to a fairly small level and have Buffers and Cache grow. Why does Linux do

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.11.2011 14:32, schrieb John J. Boyer: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is absolutely normal to have Free Memory go down to a fairly small level and have Buffers and Cache grow Why does Linux

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/13/11 8:15 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: [harry@srv-rhsoft:~]$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 16035 15366668 0118 12951 -/+ buffers/cache: 2296 13738 Swap: 2047 0

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Vreme: 11/13/2011 02:32 PM, John J. Boyer piše: Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is absolutely normal to have Free Memory go down to a fairly small level and have Buffers and Cache grow. Why does Linux do this? It seems odd to me. It is rational usage of

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Sunday 13 November 2011 08:32, John J. Boyer wrote: Why does Linux do this? It seems odd to me. Suppose you have 4 Gb of RAM, of which only 1 Gb is used. What good is the other 3 Gb doing you? You might as well not have it at all. Instead of leaving the RAM unused, Linux uses it as a

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/13/11 3:37 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Apparently Windows finally decided to use a similar approach, which it calls SuperFetch. windows has been doing this since NT 3.1 circa 1993. superfetch is something completely different. -- john r pierceN 37, W

[CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-12 Thread John J. Boyer
I have set up Mailman on a virtual private server from 1and1 running Centos, though I can't tell which version. The system has 2 GB of memory. Mailman is receiving posts, but it is not sending them out to everybody. It is also getting some out-of-memory errors. The server is also runing Plesk

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-12 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 11/12/2011 09:07 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: I have set up Mailman on a virtual private server from 1and1 running Centos, though I can't tell which version. The system has 2 GB of memory. Mailman is receiving posts, but it is not sending them out to everybody. It is also getting some