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High RAM usage with zero traffic

Posted November 26, 2014 8.1k views

I have 1core/1GB ram and no traffic on the server, installed/running php & postgresql and my ram is used about 95%, is this normal? the same things I was running on the (ovh)VPS and ram was about 100Mb to 200Mb?

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Tasks: 89 total, 2 running, 87 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.0 us, 0.0 sy, 0.0 ni,100.0 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
KiB Mem: 1017984 total, 941744 used, 76240 free, 79380 buffers
KiB Swap: 262140 total, 68 used, 262072 free. 577160 cached Mem

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  • sianios November 26, 2014
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    Can you please tell us which one consumes the memory? top can help you.

  • JonsJava November 26, 2014
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    First off, let’s make sure it’s actually used, not just in buffers/cache. Run this, and give us the output:

    free -m

    Here’s an example output:

                 total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7872       7707        165          2        272        432
-/+ buffers/cache:       7002        870
Swap:         3967        310       3657

    Now, it’s showing 165M free. Oh noes. Well, not really.

    Let’s look at the 2nd line

    -/+ buffers/cache:       7002        870

    It has 870M free. Let’s add that with the other free (ignoring the Swap line, if you have one).

    165+870 = 1035 (or ~1GB) free.

    So, in summation, you may not actually be out of RAM. It may just be cached. For more info on caching, go to linuxatemyram.com

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asb June 6, 2016

This question was answered by @JonsJava:

First off, let’s make sure it’s actually used, not just in buffers/cache. Run this, and give us the output:

free -m

Here’s an example output:

            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          7872       7707        165          2        272        432
-/+ buffers/cache:       7002        870
Swap:         3967        310       3657

Now, it’s showing 165M free. Oh noes. Well, not really.

Let’s look at the 2nd line

-/+ buffers/cache:       7002        870

It has 870M free. Let’s add that with the other free (ignoring the Swap line, if you have one).

165+870 = 1035 (or ~1GB) free.

So, in summation, you may not actually be out of RAM. It may just be cached. For more info on caching, go to linuxatemyram.com

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