Hi
Ok if I understand correctly, the inactive memory reported in 'top' is memory that was used by previously loaded applications and is effectively cache sort of like prefetch in windows where it keeps their data cached incase they are used again.
Here is my top at the moment on this server.
load average is ok, system responsiveness is ok as well. However it seems to be favouring swapping data so it can preserve this cache, if I am misunderstanding this and inactive memory is actually used memory then ok. This machine cannot get a ram upgrade at the moment due to financial constraints.
any thoughts on how to make it flush the inactive pages? or if I am misunderstanding it.
Ok if I understand correctly, the inactive memory reported in 'top' is memory that was used by previously loaded applications and is effectively cache sort of like prefetch in windows where it keeps their data cached incase they are used again.
Here is my top at the moment on this server.
Code:
last pid: 19377; load averages: 0.29, 0.27, 0.27 up 155+07:21:18 17:15:26
144 processes: 1 running, 142 sleeping, 1 zombie
CPU: 17.7% user, 0.0% nice, 3.8% system, 0.0% interrupt, 78.6% idle
Mem: 291M Active, 387M Inact, 185M Wired, 25M Cache, 105M Buf, 44M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 253M Used, 1795M Free, 12% Inuse
load average is ok, system responsiveness is ok as well. However it seems to be favouring swapping data so it can preserve this cache, if I am misunderstanding this and inactive memory is actually used memory then ok. This machine cannot get a ram upgrade at the moment due to financial constraints.
any thoughts on how to make it flush the inactive pages? or if I am misunderstanding it.