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Red Hat Enterprise WS 3 update 5 memory cache problem?

Red Hat Enterprise WS 3 update 5 memory cache problem?

2005-08-04       - By Jussi Silvennoinen

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> Thanks for the reply. May be I explain it wrong. But
> anyway, below is my free -m without any prgrams
> running
>
> ml02{pm}% free -m
>              total       used       free     shared  
> buffers     cached
> Mem:         15499      15467         32          0  
>      44      13735
> -/+ buffers/cache:       1688      13811
> Swap:         2047          0       2047
> ml02{pm}%
>
> How am I going to get back my memory?

You have a grave misconception, there's nothing "to get back".
Memory is used as cache until some program requests memory.

You said you run software which uses 5gb ? Then start it and watch what
happes to 'free -m' output.

--

 Jussi

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