Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:01:58 +0900 | From | "KOSAKI Motohiro" <> | Subject | Re: VM - a plenty of inactive memory |
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Hi
> i know this. But why the kernel locks that memory for a so long time > (2 days now)?
maybe, page cache consume it. it isn't mean that waste memory.
> Is there a way to enforce the reclaiming?
following command drop all cache. (but I don't reccomend it)
# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> And how can i > find out, which process owns that memory.
please use free command and see second line(+ buffer/cache'ed free mem).
> The problem is, that i can't > accept, that the free memory fell down to 50MB, when i have 24GB in > the nirvana. The system was recently very close to the awkward > situation to swap to disk, and i bet it will do so in the next few > days, because it happened before. Unintelligible, if one got that much > ram.
may be, it is not happend forever.
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