RE: very high cpu utilization

> From: Ameet Chaubal [SMTP:achaubal@admin.tavsnet.com]
> >
> > What does the free command tell you? How about ps aux? It looks like
>
        The ps -aux was intended to identify which processes
        were hogging memory. If they turn out to be squid, the
        next stage is to use cachemgr to work out where the
        memory is going.

> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 63208 62600 608 2044 40 944
> -/+ buffers/cache: 61616 1592
> Swap: 130748 75100 55648
>
> cached
> Mem: 62824 61708 1116 5008 84 1384
> -/+ buffers/cache: 60240 2584
> Swap: 197240 123696 73544
>
        Both machines have a working set that exceeds the
        available physical memory; both are in distress,
        even if one is more in distress than the other.

        To legititmately get this amount of swap usage on a
        machine with this memory, you need to be running a
        lot of dormant processes, or a very large number
        of processes. We are talking of 100 to 200 average
        size dormant processes.
Received on Fri May 28 1999 - 07:00:02 MDT