In the last episode (Sep 22), Blumenkrantz, Steve said:
> We very recently began replicating data from a master to a slave and
> since doing that we've noticed that most of the RAM in the machine 2
> GB is being used with very little (relatively) free (12MB - 50MB).
> I've looked at several forums and have done some web searches to see
> if there was any mention of this but haven't seen anything. Is this
> a normal occurrence? Is there some kind of tuning that I can do to
> free up more memory?
It's normal. Free memory is wasted memory. The OS will use what
memory is not allocated by processes as disk cache. A better indicator
that you are low on memory is high swap usage and swapin/swapouts per
second.
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Dan Nelson
dnelson@stripped
