[ILUG] Memory Usage at 98%

[conor at discuskeeping.com]

> Read the Linux Kernel Mailing List on swappiness if you want the full
> story (Hint: There is no agreement on the issue).
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/3000

Been reading that just now, and from what I can tell, nobody agrees.
Here is mine for what its worth:

[conor at snowwhite ~]$ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
60

[conor at snowwhite ~]$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1519        956        563          0         83        270
-/+ buffers/cache:        602        916
Swap:          517          9        507

[conor at snowwhite ~]$ uptime
20:23:36 up 24 days, 20:46,  2 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.08, 0.02

And finally P at draigs cool script:

[daddy at snowwhite ~]$ ./ps_mem.py
448.0K udevd
472.0K klogd
532.0K gpm
536.0K pam_timestamp_c
552.0K acpid
552.0K init
596.0K syslogd
596.0K portmap
600.0K gnome-pty-helpe
652.0K atd
664.0K dbus-launch
680.0K mapping-daemon
684.0K mingetty
768.0K rpc.statd
808.0K crond
820.0K smartd
848.0K xinetd
888.0K milter-greylist
988.0K gnome-keyring-d
  1.0M dovecot
  1.0M spamass-milter
  1.2M firefox
  1.2M run-mozilla.sh
  1.3M gam_server
  1.3M dbus-daemon-1
  1.3M su
  1.4M dovecot-auth
  1.6M ssh-agent
  1.6M sshd
  1.8M fetchmail
  1.8M imap-login
  1.9M bash
  2.1M xfs
  2.3M xscreensaver
  2.6M bonobo-activati
  3.4M gnome-vfs-daemo
  3.5M gdm-binary
  4.0M pam-panel-icon
  4.8M ntpd
  5.1M hald
  5.4M sendmail
  6.0M gnome-volume-ma
  6.5M notification-ar
  6.6M gnome-settings-
  7.0M eggcups
  7.2M metacity
  7.8M clock-applet
  8.2M nautilus-throbb
  9.1M gconfd-2
  9.2M clamav-milter
  9.4M gnome-session
10.5M mixer_applet2
10.7M wnck-applet
11.6M gnome-volume-co
12.9M gnome-terminal
14.3M gnome-panel
15.2M clamd
19.7M nautilus
20.0M rhn-applet-gui
52.0M X
68.5M httpd
213.4M spamd
249.4M firefox-bin

Warning: Shared memory is not reported correctly by this system.
Values reported could be too large.

> /Ole

Pity about the badly reported shared memory, ah sure Padraig will fix it
someday.

Regards
Conor.