Hello all,
I recently mis-posted the following to the BlueQuartz mailing list rather than
BlueOnyx (I'm fairly new to the servers and continue to switch the names in my
head). I apologize for the double-post to those who may subscribe to the old
BlueQuartz list as well.
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I'm using a BO server and have found that I'm constantly running up on memory
usage notifications from Active Monitor. Specifically, I'm almost always in a
state of heavy or moderate memory usage.
What I don't understand is why.
The system overall has 512MB of memory, which I know is not much, however,
there's not much running on the box at this time either.
When I go into top, I see the following stats:
Mem: 509084k total, 426320k used, 82764k free, 8668k buffers
Swap: 262140k total, 262092k used, 48k free, 212316k cached
However, when I look down the list of processes, only spamd is taking up any
memory remotely high -- 9.1%. All other processes are showing less than 1%
usage (usually far less). Also, the load average on this server is almost
always below 1, so I'm not sure what the repercussions are for letting it ride
with memory warnings like this. It doesn't appear to be having a noticeable
affect on performance, however, right now it's only really being used by a few
people.
I should also note that this server is being run on Linode, so it's not by
itself on the box, but as I understand it, the memory should remain stable
while the CPU is shared with my other tenants.
Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Thanks!
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Matt James
President
Flat Cap Apps
http://www.flatcapapps.com
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