memory /swap question: possibly also tmpfs question

[Gregory Nowak]

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Yeah, I noticed the same thing. When my server gets booted, about 80
mb of ram is used with no swap. However, after the uptime gets to
about 2 days or so, I notice that all but 4k or so of my ram is used,
and a bit of swap. It makes no difference if my system has 128m or
256m, or 384m of ram installed, the free amount of ram after about 2
days uptime is still about 4 k. Since this was happening from the
beginning, I assumed that it was normal, but was wondering what was
causing it. Also I don't have any tmpfs here.

Greg


On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 10:14:41AM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I am noticing that when I use 'free", lots of my 256Mg memory is being
> used without swap hardly being touched. Is this normal?
> i also have a problem that may be related. looking at messages during
> bootup, I keep getting complaints about
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on tmpfs,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> I didn't even have tmpfs configured in my kernel, though I noticed I did
> have a /etc/tmpfs and mounting tmpfs is included in
> /etc/init.d/mountvirtfs and I think somewhere else that i haven't tracked
> down yet. I don't particularly want to use tmpfs, but the only way to get
> rid of the complaint 9though not really an eror) as to add the mount to my
> /etc/fstab with /dev/shm (which does exist) and configure it into the
> kernel. this didn't seem to change my performance any, and whenever I
> checked with DF" /dev/shm (tmpfs) showed 0 percent. Is there a way I can
> get rid of this completely on the user side or, if I'm stuck with it, make
> it work properly? I'm suspecting this has something to do with my memory
> being used and my swap not so much, though eventually swap does also get
> used. but maybe I'm misunderstanding how swap and memory work.
> Thanks.
> --
> Cheryl
> 
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