It looks quite healty from your memory usage statistics. Remember that Linux is a very efficient OS, and consume much less memory than comparative Windows platform. The "1904 K bytes" on the free Mem column shows the memory left after system / program and buffer cache use. Linux is built to use as much available memory for disk caching and bufferring as possible, as these memory would be left idled otherwise. When your software needs more memory, the kernel would automatically free up some of these cache buffers for program use, and it all done for you transparently in the background. So, from your figures, the actual amount of memory used by system and user programs are only : 125564 - 1904 - 80984 = 42676 K bytes (about 42 MB). And within this 42 MB, around 10 MB (9980 KB) are used for buffers. So, you still have plenty of memory to go.
To explain for your NFS problem experienced, please give more information as to what version of Linux kernel, NFS server software, which file system etc. you are using. Have you run fsck again your shared file system recently ? Regards, Raymodn Fung. daniel wrote: > i've got a celeron500 here running nfs, samba, apfs, apache, bind, sendmail > and proftpd. all services are required as this little box is the central > machine in the office hosting all of the development for all the sites we're > working on. > > but lately it's been blowing up and people on their macs (osX) have been > losing access to their nfs shares. and just now i had problems on my redhat > box where i tried to ls an nfs mounted directory. instead of giving the > contents, i was met with an error stating that the file handle is 'stale'. > > the machine's only got 128mb ram with a swap of about 192mb. is this too > much for this little machine or am i just configuring something wrong? can > i increase the amount of memory that nfs has? > > here's the output of free: > > total used free shared buffers cached > Mem: 125564 123660 1904 0 9980 80984 > +/- buffers/cache: 32696 32696 92868 > Swap: 196552 7264 189288 > > _________________________________ > daniel a. g. quinn > starving programmer > > Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your > hopes to the stars; yes, rise as high as the very stars themselves. Let no > man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because... man is your > brother; he is not your lord. > - marcus garvey > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
