Re: False Memory Reports



On 2006-08-28, jschmid@xxxxxxxxxxx <jschmid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am having an interesting issue with my web server. I am currently
running FreeBSD 5.4 using apache. i am not completly new to this
although this is kinda strange. I run web metrics on all server to get
HDD / Swap / RAM totals, the web server always comes back with Total:
1090 Used: 1072 % Used: 98.3% .
All other servers are giving good reports (way less than threshold) and

the "top" stats are as follows when running it on web server.

last pid: 94149; load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 up 102+01:48:53
09:23:43
74 processes: 1 running, 73 sleeping
CPU states: 0.2% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt,
99.8% idle
Mem: 392M Active, 410M Inact, 138M Wired, 49M Cache, 111M Buf, 7808K
Free
Swap: 512M Total, 260K Used, 512M Free


According to this, I see nothing wrong.


The server is not lagging at all, and the pages are server up quick on
bothe the internet and the intranet.


Any help or insight would be great.

Wherever possible FreeBSD doesn't keep unused memory lying around,
because unused memory is wasted memory. Instead it's used for things
like caching recently read data in case you're about to read it again,
and the cached data is discarded if more memory is required to be
allocated.

i.e. I don't see a problem either.

Kris
.



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