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Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:35:18 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: Machine's high load when HIGHMEM is enabled
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> Box has 1 GB of RAM, it's running oracle database.
> After some disk activity disk cache has 400 Mb, so 600
> Mb is free

What makes you assume that the only thing taking up RAM
in the whole box is disk cache? 1GB of ram with 400Mb
of disk cache != 600Mb free. Posting /proc/meminfo is
likely to be more revealing.

M.

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