Re: Physical Memory Fully Used and Swap is Not Used

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:14:54 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c8970906230014y6e41f386u8c4ac952ed57aacc_at_mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Mathias Magnusson < mathias.magnusson_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> As Niall has pointed out memory is measured different on different
> platforms. Linux will apparently show you that it uses everything as it
> includes dynamically sized areas such as the filecache that idle memory is
> used for.
>

I should have pointed out Christo's presentation on the subject available at http://www.pythian.com/news/741/pythian-goodies-free-memory-swap-oracle-and-everything by
the way. well worth a look, and kudos to christo for putting it live online.

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