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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat High RAM usage, extremely low swapping Post 302624793 by hedkandi on Monday 16th of April 2012 10:20:47 PM
Old 04-16-2012
MySQL SOLVED

@corona, thanks that was a relief. I logged a case with RHEL just in case and they told me the same thing you did but in totally incomprehensible terms Smilie

@mark, thanks for the vmstat syntax. I suppose cat /proc/meminfo provided me with more or less the same info

@murphy, I did check the link you provided but I got lost halfway thru Smilie I think I was just too stressed to figure it out yesterday!

Anyways, just in case someone comes across this thread and wants answers, following is the math concoction:

Code:
For example (Units are in megabytes):

# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1000        900        100          0        350        350
-/+ buffers/cache:        200        800

In this example, as far as applications are concerned the system is using only 200MB of memory and has 800MB free and available for use if needed.

Note: in this example,

    Total Physical Memory = 1000 M

    Physically Used Memory = 900 M

    Actual used memory = 200 M

    buffers = 350 M

    cached = 350 M

    Physically Free Memory = 100 M

    Memory free for Applications = 800 M

The items to note here are:

<Physically Used Memory> = <Actual used memory> + <buffers> + <cache> = 200 + 350 + 350 = 900 M

<Physically Free Memory> = <Total Physical Memory> - <Actual used memory> - <buffers> - <cache> = 1000 - 200 - 350 - 350 = 100 M

<Memory free for Applications> = <Total Physical Memory> - <Actual used memory> = 1000 - 200 = 800 M

<Memory used  by Applications> = <Physically Used Memory> - <buffers> - <cache> = 900 - 350 - 350 = 200 M

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RHN_CHECK(8)							   Red Hat, Inc.						      RHN_CHECK(8)

NAME
rhn_check - Check for and execute queued actions on RHN. SYNOPSIS
rhn_check [options] DESCRIPTION
rhn_check is a client program that connects to Red Hat Network (or a Red Hat Network Satellite) and receives queued actions for this par- ticular system. After receiving the actions, rhn_check will then process them, and return the results to Red Hat Network. OPTIONS
-v, --verbose Increase the debugging output. --proxy=PROXY Specify an http proxy to use. --proxyUser=PROXYUSER Specify a username to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyPassword. --proxyPassword=PROXYPASSWORD Specify a password to use for an authenticated proxy. This option must be used in conjunction with proxyUser. --version Show the program's version number and exit. -h, --help Show a help message and exit. FILES
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid The digital server ID for this machine if the system has been registered onto Red Hat Network. This file does not exist otherwise. /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date The common configuration file used by RHN client programs. SEE ALSO
rhn_register(8), rhnreg_ks(8), rhnsd(8), rhn-profile-sync(8), rhnplugin(8), up2date(5). AUTHORS
See the AUTHORS file included with this software. This manual page was written by James Bowes <jbowes@redhat.com> BUGS
Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.redhat.com>. COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Red Hat, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU- LAR PURPOSE. Linux 2010 August 30 RHN_CHECK(8)
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