[SAC] ProjectsVM Upgrade Problem

[Martin Spott]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:12:07AM -0800, Hamish wrote:
> Martin wrote:

> > 1.) This system is having access to four CPU's and 8 GByte
> > RAM, but the CPU's are idle most of the time and the
> > system is hardly making any use of the available RAM.
> 
> 
> wrt "hardly any use of available ram":
> 
> I see ~ 80% memory use, before cache. (6455 of 8006mb ram
> allocated)
> 
> projects:~$ free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:          8006       7693        312          0        451        785
> -/+ buffers/cache:       6455       1550
> Swap:         4000        141       3859

Indeed, 6455 of 8006 MByte are assigned as buffer, that's the typical
pattern for a system which is mostly idle: Most of the memory which
isn't being used for real work is dedicated to the buffer or cache and
no swap is in use,

	Martin.
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