High memory usage on idle VPS

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High memory usage on idle VPS

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forum:ryanprayogo 14 years, 11 months ago

I am seeing a weird memory usage on my linode.

On my linode, even after I stopped mysqld and apache, I'm getting a high memory usage.

The output from "free -m" looks like this:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           348        290         57          0         15        246
-/+ buffers/cache:         28        320
Swap:          255          0        255

290M for an idle VPS? That's really weird. Anyone got any insight?

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forum:atambo · Answer 1 · Dec. 13, 2009, 1:02 a.m.

forum:atambo 14 years, 11 months ago

http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

forum:djg320 · Answer 2 · Dec. 13, 2009, 1:02 a.m.

forum:djg320 14 years, 11 months ago

That's entirely normal, 246 megs of ram are being used for disk cache as shown in that output you have there.

As you run new processes and applications they will displace that cached memory.

EDIT: Beat me to the punch. Ha.

forum:ryanprayogo · Answer 3 · Dec. 13, 2009, 1:05 a.m.

forum:ryanprayogo 14 years, 11 months ago

thanks guys :)

that helps lol.

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