Re: Linux/Oracle Memory question

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:46:43 +0200
Message-ID: <4682dac2$0$14245$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be>

<rogv24_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1182951552.810083.83190_at_q69g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>I joined a company and I noticed Oracle 10g installed on linux server
> with 8 GB of ram.
> I can't seem to understand why all the memory is taken.
> When I run free all the memory is used up:
>
> total used free shared buffers
> cached
> Mem: 8164176 8145112 19064 0 70096
> 7633360
> -/+ buffers/cache: 441656 7722520
> Swap: 4194296 467292 3727004
>
> cat /proc/meminfo shows:
>
>
> MemTotal: 8164176 kB
> MemFree: 20344 kB
> Buffers: 93028 kB
> Cached: 7598528 kB
> SwapCached: 26308 kB
> Active: 1323876 kB
> Inactive: 6633240 kB
> HighTotal: 0 kB
> HighFree: 0 kB
> LowTotal: 8164176 kB
> LowFree: 20344 kB
> SwapTotal: 4194296 kB
> SwapFree: 3726992 kB
> Dirty: 2068 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> Mapped: 1297384 kB
> Slab: 110616 kB
> CommitLimit: 8276384 kB
> Committed_AS: 5536800 kB
> PageTables: 47016 kB
> VmallocTotal: 536870911 kB
> VmallocUsed: 265396 kB
> VmallocChunk: 536604667 kB
> HugePages_Total: 0
> HugePages_Free: 0
> Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
>
> any advise would be helpful.
>

And what is the problem with this ? As long as you don't experience disk paging, the system should be ok. Free memory = wasted memory :-) Received on Wed Jun 27 2007 - 16:46:43 CDT