Memory usage on rhel Dell 2650 box

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:59:49PM -0700, Sudhir Damle wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I have Dell 2640 with kernel 2.6, 4 GB ram, I am expecting it to use most of
> the memory for disk cache and show very little memory as free witg free -m
> command, similar to other boxes. 
> 
> The cache size is only 818 MB, and free memory is 2661 MB, Any ideas why
> this machine is behaving differently than others.
> 
> /proc/meminfo is below.


Has the system been on very long?  Has it had reason to access the
disk much?  Perhaps the processes aren't doing much I/O for memory to be
used for cache?

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