Disk buffers are constantly being filled by the kernel to use up almost all available memory. Use the command 'free', and on the second line it shows the memory values without the disk buffers. 'free -m' will show the values in Megabytes.
-Todd On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 03:14, Sudev Barar wrote: > This is directed towards Guru's... > Ref. my talk at ILUGD on LTSP, it was pointed out that 2GB for 15~20 > users seems high. How can one analyse the memory needed from running > server. Whenever I give top it shows almost all of it used and some > swap also being used. Even at 5am when I was the only user. Even right > now at lunch time with only three users logged in the output is: > > Mem: 1547764k av, 1007404k used, 540360k free, 0k shrd, 70424k buff > 699284k actv, 63876k in_d, 17644k in_c > Swap: 2040244k av, 116k used, 2040128k free 544336k cached > > Pointers please for further reading / analysis. > > > Sudev Barar > > Learning Linux > > Address: D10 NH2, Faridabad 121001 > Tel; +91-129-5021588 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
