[suse-sles-e] where did all my memory go?

From: Peter Van Lone (petervl_at_gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 04:58:40 CEST


Message-ID: <68b791330608311958p189bff4at83d6f1dda5a23339@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:58:40 -0500
From: "Peter Van Lone" <petervl@gmail.com>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] where did all my memory go?

What is top (see below) telling me?

This is a SLES 9 box running just apache2 and PHP4 and Mysql (small
little database to service the web site).

If I understand this correctly, there is only about 260 mb of memory "free".

Does this mean ... only that much ram is available for new processes?
Or, is there some "idle" process that has all of this ram?

I'm trying to trouble-shoot why a symantec backup exec agent seems to
be spontaneously unloading, and I'm now wondering if it might be a ram
shortage?

Peter

Tasks: 68 total, 1 running, 67 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
Mem: 4082748k total, 3793572k used, 289176k free, 167100k buffers
Swap: 1052616k total, 8k used, 1052608k free, 3364072k cached

  PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
    1 root 16 0 588 244 208 S 0.0 0.0 0:06.69 init
    2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/0
    3 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
    4 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 migration/1
    5 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/1
    6 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/2
    7 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/2
    8 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 migration/3
    9 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/3
   10 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/0
   11 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/1
   12 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 events/2
   13 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/3
   14 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 khelper
   15 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
   74 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/0
   75 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kblockd/1

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