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Old 03-22-2011
Top header says 50% free, but table shows 100% used
Hi,

Can anyone explain this?
Code:
top - 04:21:04 up 23 days,  2:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
Tasks:  37 total,   1 running,  36 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:    524288k total,   253084k used,   271204k free,        0k buffers
Swap:        0k total,        0k used,        0k free,        0k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND          
12212 root      18   0  270m 106m 7320 S  0.0 20.8   0:36.63 httpd             
18037 nobody    18   0  270m 100m 1284 S  0.0 19.6   0:00.00 httpd             
18041 nobody    18   0  270m 100m 1248 S  0.0 19.6   0:00.00 httpd             
18042 nobody    18   0  270m  99m  688 S  0.0 19.5   0:00.00 httpd             
18035 root      19   0  220m  97m  124 S  0.0 19.0   0:00.00 httpd

There are many more lines of top results, adding up to well over 100%. Due to decent performance, I'm assuming the values in the header section are correct, but why the discrepancy? It is a VPS, if that's relevant.

Cheers,
Dave
# 2  
Old 03-23-2011
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Originally Posted by varontron
Due to decent performance, I'm assuming the values in the header section are correct, but why the discrepancy?
That probably includes any shared memory, i.e. things like libc that get loaded into memory once but used in umpteen different processes.
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