Hi Guys,
I have noticed that recently (last 3 months) my DA box has had less and less available RAM. So I decided that it was time to upgrade and transfer to a new and beefier server... which I did today.
Old Server: 1 x Xeon 5140, 4GB RAM, 2 x 250GB HDDs running CentOS 5 32bit
New Server: 2 x Xeon 3460, 8GB RAM, 2 x 250GB HDDs running CentOS 5 64bit
Have a look at top's results below... which are confusing me like hell!
New Server:
top - 12:35:25 up 18:50, 1 user, load average: 1.80, 1.47, 0.77
Tasks: 229 total, 1 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 1.3%sy, 1.7%ni, 73.9%id, 22.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8166584k total, 8119736k used, 46848k free, 49312k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 152k used, 1052096k free, 7696808k cached
Old Server:
top - 12:35:41 up 22:38, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.08
Tasks: 227 total, 1 running, 226 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4149608k total, 3983348k used, 166260k free, 48672k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 100k used, 2096372k free, 3673648k cached
I am too much of a noob to tell where the Ram is going. All I see is one hell of a lot of IMAP, POP3, Apache, DirectAdmin, MySQL and Named Processes and Children.
My worry is that I have just upgraded to 8GB of RAM and I have NOTHING more available to me (almost)
Please help guys.
Chris
I have noticed that recently (last 3 months) my DA box has had less and less available RAM. So I decided that it was time to upgrade and transfer to a new and beefier server... which I did today.
Old Server: 1 x Xeon 5140, 4GB RAM, 2 x 250GB HDDs running CentOS 5 32bit
New Server: 2 x Xeon 3460, 8GB RAM, 2 x 250GB HDDs running CentOS 5 64bit
Have a look at top's results below... which are confusing me like hell!
New Server:
top - 12:35:25 up 18:50, 1 user, load average: 1.80, 1.47, 0.77
Tasks: 229 total, 1 running, 228 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 1.3%sy, 1.7%ni, 73.9%id, 22.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.7%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 8166584k total, 8119736k used, 46848k free, 49312k buffers
Swap: 1052248k total, 152k used, 1052096k free, 7696808k cached
Old Server:
top - 12:35:41 up 22:38, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.08
Tasks: 227 total, 1 running, 226 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.8%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 4149608k total, 3983348k used, 166260k free, 48672k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total, 100k used, 2096372k free, 3673648k cached
I am too much of a noob to tell where the Ram is going. All I see is one hell of a lot of IMAP, POP3, Apache, DirectAdmin, MySQL and Named Processes and Children.
My worry is that I have just upgraded to 8GB of RAM and I have NOTHING more available to me (almost)
Please help guys.
Chris