[ale] Ale Digest, Vol 36, Issue 60

[Lightner, Jeff]

Yep - the calculation they have is one I had work out for my Nagios
monitoring back in 2005.  The default plugin just looked at "used"
without accounting for the way Linux really does it which was surprising
to me.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:43 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Ale Digest, Vol 36, Issue 60

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 15:17 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Seeing the free memory afterward should make you sad. You paid for
> that RAM, put it to work! See http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ 

That is an awesome link.

Though, you know, to prove the point, they should provide a kernel
source tree where the disk and filesystem caches are disabled so that
people can **see** the actual difference.  I know this sounds crazy, but
it seems that logical proof doesn't work on everyone.  "Too much
theory," they say.

But I think that it would make a huge difference.  Then again, there
might be some schmuck out there that thinks that "free is showing I have
memory available again, yay!" even though their system is slow... I have
no faith left in the human race.

	--- Mike
 
Proud partner. Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
 
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