Linux Memory Management
Scenario: Customer is concerned that only 100MB of their 2GB of memory is as unused or free when running the free command. However, no processes appear to be consuming large amounts of memory, and the server is not running slow. Cause: This is not a problem, but rather a result of the way linux manages its memory. On boot linux will typically display a large amount of free memory, as no processes have started to address it yet. Once processes […]
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