From the following /proc/meminfo output only ~2GB is free out of total 250GB, but Cached is 194630300 kB. My customer is concerned over the very little memory showing as free. Kindly shed some light if the free memory available in this situation is some thing we need to worry or can we take it as expected behavior of Linux kernel - as most of them are cached.
Linux 2.6.39-400.277.1.el6uek.x86_64
hi,
we all know /proc is about the information of active process,
I have just read an artical which said you can use /proc/cpuinfo,
/proc/net./proc/meminfo etc. to know about some hardware
information .But I want to know how to use with command line? (1 Reply)
Hi,
What are the various way's to fix /proc folder in redhat linux 7.2 and how to verify /proc folder is proper or croupted?
Thank in advance
Bache Gowda (7 Replies)
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hi all !
Please help me
When I select data from oracle with proc * C prog.
I count the number of rows
For example the total rows is 1000000
but the number of result return is a limit number 5000 for ex
So How can I know this limit (5 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to calculate the CPU Usage by getting the difference between the idle time reported by /proc/stat at 2 different intervals. Now the 4th entry in the first line of /proc/stat will give me the 'idle time'. But I also came across /proc/uptime that gives me 2 entries : 1st one as the... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I am trying to understand the role of buffer cache in block I/O.
I am monitoring /proc/meminfo, my question is does the value of 0 for 'buffers', mean that any subsequent disk read issued by a process, would get the data physically from the disk, and not an allocated buffer for the block?
... (1 Reply)
If you are adding the kernel module without any module parameter passing, it should print out following information to info1 file so that user can make read access to info1 file (via, for example, cat /proc/info1):
• Processor type
• Kernel version
• Total number of the processes currently... (1 Reply)
I'm in the process of adding various data to my rrdtool setup, and one of the things i want ot monitor is the meminfo stuff.
I have it running locally very well with the following:
/usr/bin/rrdupdate /etc/rrdtool/192.168.43.254.mem.rrd --template \
used:free:buff:cached:swap N:`awk ' \
... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT CENTOS
free
FREE(1) User Commands FREE(1)NAME
free - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
SYNOPSIS
free [options]
DESCRIPTION
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the ker-
nel. The information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo. The displayed columns are:
total Total installed memory (MemTotal and SwapTotal in /proc/meminfo)
used Used memory (calculated as total - free)
free Unused memory (MemFree and SwapFree in /proc/meminfo)
shared Memory used (mostly) by tmpfs (Shmem in /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 2.6.32, displayed as zero if not available)
buffers
Memory used by kernel buffers (Buffers in /proc/meminfo)
cached Memory used by the page cache (calculated as Cached - Shmem in /proc/meminfo - the Cached value is actually the sum of page cache
and tmpfs memory)
OPTIONS -b, --bytes
Display the amount of memory in bytes.
-k, --kilo
Display the amount of memory in kilobytes. This is the default.
-m, --mega
Display the amount of memory in megabytes.
-g, --giga
Display the amount of memory in gigabytes.
--tera Display the amount of memory in terabytes.
-h, --human
Show all output fields automatically scaled to shortest three digit unit and display the units of print out. Following units are
used.
B = bytes
K = kilos
M = megas
G = gigas
T = teras
If unit is missing, and you have petabyte of RAM or swap, the number is in terabytes and columns might not be aligned with header.
-c, --count count
Display the result count times. Requires the -s option.
-l, --lohi
Show detailed low and high memory statistics.
-o, --old
Display the output in old format, the only difference being this option will disable the display of the "buffer adjusted" line.
-s, --seconds seconds
Continuously display the result delay seconds apart. You may actually specify any floating point number for delay, usleep(3) is
used for microsecond resolution delay times.
--si Use power of 1000 not 1024.
-t, --total
Display a line showing the column totals.
--help Print help.
-V, --version
Display version information.
FILES
/proc/meminfo
memory information
SEE ALSO ps(1), slabtop(1), top(1), vmstat(8).
AUTHORS
Written by Brian Edmonds.
REPORTING BUGS
Please send bug reports to <procps@freelists.org>
procps-ng September 2011 FREE(1)