Memory usage and swap (was Re: 2008.9 Basic questions)
Marcel Wirth
marcel.wirth at gmail.com
Sun Sep 21 14:40:50 CEST 2008
Alex Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Iain B. Findleton wrote:
>> And of course, the buggy software can hurt. Surprisingly, I activated
>> swap on my FR and stability and periodic slowing have improved. Don't
>> know why that should be, but there you are.
>>
>>
> The answer there is to run top while using the phone... you'll see that
> it's running at pretty much at the limits of the 128MB built in.
I always thought that only "free" would report the correct memory numbers.
Right now, "top" reports this on my FR:
Mem: 123856k total, 118412k used, 5444k free, 136k buffers
Compare that to the output of "free":
root at om-gta02:/media/card# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 123856 118272 5584 0 136 75712
-/+ buffers/cache: 42424 81432
Swap: 65528 28 65500
The line "Mem" shows memory used including caches that will be
overwritten whenever a program requires more memory.
The line "-/+ buffers/cache" supposedly shows the real memory usage,
currently about 42M. If that were to reach 128M, we would be in real
trouble.
I'm going to turn the swap off again...
Marcel
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