[NBLUG/talk] top output help

droman at romansys.com droman at romansys.com
Tue Apr 24 18:44:50 PDT 2007


In my opinion, anytime you are using over a couple MB of swap(200MB of
swap currently being used as shown below) it's too much.

It also looks like you don't have much buffer room.
What type of server is this...what are the 8 running processes?
I ask, because some processes can eat up a lot of memory but it's being
used  internally for cache(such as a database server).  If this is the
case you might be ok.

Thanks,
    ---Dean.


> Would anyone be willing to comment on just how busied out this system is
> memory wise. I think it's creaking a little, but only just on the edge of
> what it can handle.
>
> top - 20:07:49 up 10 days, 23:47,  3 users,  load average: 2.38, 1.67,
> 1.13
> Tasks: 353 total,   8 running, 345 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.7% us,  3.3% sy, 29.1% ni, 63.9% id,  0.0% wa,  0.7% hi,  2.3%
> si
> Mem:    969372k total,   957648k used,    11724k free,      320k buffers
> Swap:   522072k total,   199300k used,   322772k free,     6784k cached
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