On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> In this:
>
> Mem: 16432240k total, 16344596k used, 87644k free, 27548k buffers
> Swap: 10241428k total, 3680860k used, 6560568k free, 6230376k cached
>
> The 6.2G cached is considered part of the 16G used
>
> So it's not using more memory than it has. It's just the accounting
> is inobvious.
This is a snapshot. The fact that 3.7GB of swap is used here suggests
there may have been more memory used at some point in the past then we're
seeing now; that's more what I was commenting on. A look at the si/so
figures in vmstat should nail down whether that's still going on or not
now, as Tom already suggested.
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