Re: virtually no free memory left on buildworld

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 09:24:31 Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> I just installed new 4GB RAM in ia64 rx2600 box.
> On make -j8 buildworld I see with "top -PISu":
>
>
> last pid: 69791;  load averages:  8.42,  8.44,  8.59    up 0+02:04:49 
> 18:18:17 154 processes: 11 running, 125 sleeping, 18 waiting
> CPU 0: 88.8% user,  0.0% nice, 11.0% system,  0.1% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> CPU 1: 92.5% user,  0.0% nice,  7.4% system,  0.0% interrupt,  0.0% idle
> Mem: 856M Active, 2414M Inact, 492M Wired, 136M Cache, 417M Buf, 17M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

Good, 2G of filesystem information cached and no swap used. Think of free 
memory as wasted memory.
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Mel