What used the linux memory? Low cache, low buffer, not a VM
- by Jason
First of all, yes, I have read LinuxAteMyRAM, which doesn't explain my situation.
# free -tm
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 48149 43948 4200 0 4 75
-/+ buffers/cache: 43868 4280
Swap: 38287 0 38287
Total: 86436 43948 42488
#
As shown above, the -/+ buffers/cache: line shows indicates the used memory rate is very high. However, from output of top, I don't see any process used more than 100MB of memory.
So, what used the memory?
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
28078 root 18 0 327m 92m 10m S 0 0.2 0:25.06 java
31416 root 16 0 250m 28m 20m S 0 0.1 25:54.59 ResourceMonitor
21598 root -98 0 26552 25m 8316 S 0 0.1 80:49.54 had
24580 root 16 0 24152 10m 760 S 0 0.0 1:25.87 rsyncd
4956 root 16 0 62588 10m 3132 S 0 0.0 12:36.54 vxconfigd
26703 root 16 0 139m 7120 2900 S 1 0.0 4359:39 hrmonitor
21873 root 15 0 18764 4684 2152 S 0 0.0 30:07.56 MountAgent
21883 root 15 0 13736 4280 2172 S 0 0.0 25:25.09 SybaseAgent
21878 root 15 0 18548 4172 2000 S 0 0.0 52:33.46 NICAgent
21887 root 15 0 12660 4056 2168 S 0 0.0 25:07.80 SybaseBkAgent
17798 root 25 0 10652 4048 1160 S 0 0.0 0:00.04 vxconfigbackupd
This is an x86_64 machine (not a common-brand server) running x84_64 Linux, not a container in a virtual machine. Kernel (uname -a):
Linux 2.6.16.60-0.99.1-smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 12 14:24:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Content of /proc/meminfo:
MemTotal: 49304856 kB
MemFree: 4066708 kB
Buffers: 35688 kB
Cached: 132588 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 26536644 kB
Inactive: 17296272 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 49304856 kB
LowFree: 4066708 kB
SwapTotal: 39206624 kB
SwapFree: 39206528 kB
Dirty: 200 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 249592 kB
Mapped: 52712 kB
Slab: 1049464 kB
CommitLimit: 63859052 kB
Committed_AS: 659384 kB
PageTables: 3412 kB
VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB
VmallocUsed: 478420 kB
VmallocChunk: 34359259695 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 2048 kB
df reports no large consumption of memory from tmpfs filesystems.