On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:28:43AM -1000, Jeff Wong wrote:
> This is normal. As far as linux is concerned, free memory is
> wasted memory. If there is alot of unused memory linux will
> automatically grab it for disk/file buffering and will keep it
> until some other process requests a memory alloc
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Any ideas as to what may be going on? Is top lying, am I
> misinterpreting the value that top is showing, is all the memory getting
> mapped to the process even though it may not be completely used?
>
> -Charles
>
This is normal. As far as linu
Ok, I lied. For some reason I thought most of the memory was free when
we first power up the system, but it comes up with about 200MB used.
Seems like a lot, but I don't see anything hogging it all, so maybe it's
just allocating memory really freely to the processes that are there.
When first
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 07:54:01AM +, Charles Lockhart wrote:
> Then the application starts doing disk writes. It's streaming
> imaging data to disk at sustained rates as high as 30MBPS. I'm
> running top to get an idea of what's going on, and I watch the
> free memory sink to about 3MB of data
On Thursday 13 March 2003 09:54 pm, Charles Lockhart wrote:
>
> Any ideas as to what may be going on? Is top lying, am I
> misinterpreting the value that top is showing, is all the memory getting
> mapped to the process even though it may not be completely used?
>
I have observed on a few of our
I have a "dedicated system" (what do you call a system that's obviously
not embedded but is designed (destined?) for a very narrow scope of
operation?), a Compaq DL360 G1 box whose sole purpose in this existence
is to run an application we have.
The system's got 512 MB main memory. When we fi
