Hi Philip,
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 01:03:54PM +0100, philip taylor wrote:
> top - 12:00:19 up 6 days, 11:30, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.13
> Tasks: 78 total, 2 running, 76 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
> Cpu(s): 0.5%us, 1.4%sy, 0.0%ni, 98.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si,
> 0.2%st
> Mem: 233476k total, 213324k used, 20152k free, 4504k buffers
> Swap: 262132k total, 31252k used, 230880k free, 28176k cached
So as it stands there's about 28M of RAM being used as disk cache, so this system doesn't seems to be under much memory pressure.
> the aim is to try and work out, why the ram use sometimes wildly shifts.
How are you detecting this shift in memory usage? What problem is it causing?
Cheers,
Andy
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