memory reading

I just compared on one of my servers (CentOS5.x); and top and DirectAdmin say the same. How does top compare on your server?

Jeff
 
This is actually not an issue and safe to ignore. This is my own stupidity in not fully reading my own computer screen and comparing it to cPanel (or another panel).

It actually reads "total memory" and "free memory". The word "free" is what I was not making the proper association in my head when reading it. I'm use to another panel which displays the total and total used (not total free).

So this is my own error between user and keyboard.

Nothing to see here.... Move along.... lol:p
 
TheVisitors, I believe that you have a trouble on your server. Linux OS must use ALL available memory for any processes: apache, mysql, cache, etc... How to linux os working with memrory you can read here http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
this is output from one of the my production server:
Mem: 8015628k total, 7378692k used, 636936k free, 944884k buffers
Swap: 8388600k total, 2348k used, 8386252k free, 4120504k cached
It's ok, memory use for working.
Your server use 74Mb from 2048, I think that's no good.
 
TheVisitors, I believe that you have a trouble on your server. Linux OS must use ALL available memory for any processes: apache, mysql, cache, etc... How to linux os working with memrory you can read here http://www.linuxatemyram.com/
this is output from one of the my production server:

It's ok, memory use for working.
Your server use 74Mb from 2048, I think that's no good.

Um, no.

I don't believe in eating all the ram. I've heard the argument of using all the ram... I don't believe it. It's never hold true, ever.... EVER... PERIOD.

I'm not using anything special except the default settings in Direct Admin. ;)
 
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Unless you are seeing a ton of swap usage your server is not low on ram. Linux will cache a ton of ram for use as it needs it.
 
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