> > > Is it correct behavoir to have the following:
> > >
> > > total used free shared buffers
cached
> > > Mem: 255020 252688 2332 0 3012
99264
> > > -/+ buffers/cache: 150412 104608
> > > Swap: 112412 112412 0
> > >
> > > I understand that in many situation it is an advantage to keep things
in
> > > the file cache and instead of using that memory for new things, swap
out
> > > parts of other processes. But isn't this alittle extreme?
> >
> > Do you know how you did that? I had (not quite so extreme) this once
> > but can't reproduce it in pre3 or pre4-1.
>
> Not really. I was running X, netscape, MySQL.... Machine had been
> running about 10 hours. I'll try to make it happen again.
I'm also running MySQL with a large key_buffer_size. Here's my free:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 254540 251248 3292 0 1712 221136
-/+ buffers/cache 28400 226140
Swap: 72252 69344 69344
Thomas
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