From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755139AbYDIIqJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 04:46:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752305AbYDIIp5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 04:45:57 -0400 Received: from n77.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([98.136.44.45]:43008 "HELO n77.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752297AbYDIIp4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 04:45:56 -0400 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 492714.19221.bm@omp400.mail.sp1.yahoo.com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=vGEDOji2Qm3FUOAkFtVjVtuE4MF9Xv0sqCtqxdEv9pwnOwZJltfZG3xYb3YtxADgwwexK+RFC4LyE5T3NEtBKoZNnLxgf5mOEqM6+8U8qfc2PUz+PbtGTO7Mbc3KX3xzCZ5E15kyCfT76dgIyPQi26mfdUNVfiMFSCnHUtsU0DY=; X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/902.40 YahooMailWebService/0.7.185 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:45:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Andreas Grimm To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <293246.57980.qm@web45116.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello everybody, i got a weird problem with one of my servers. It's a Intel SR2500AL with 32GB of RAM. Looking at the memory usage of the system, something is going totally wrong. The crucial numbers from /proc/meminfo are: MemTotal: 33265916 kB MemFree: 416168 kB Inactive: 24630428 kB (24GB? whooaaa) Another system with only 16GB, same amount of users and load, shows a more normal behaviour: MemTotal: 16619808 kB MemFree: 6912676 kB Inactive: 1774364 kB Why does the 32GB-System have this plenty of inactive memory. Is there a way to find out, what the kernel is holding in readiness (that's the definition of inactive memory afaik)? OS: SLES 10 SP1 Kernel : 2.6.16.27-0.9-bigsmp Thanks in advance. Andreas Grimm ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com