I've ran this by my Linux admins, but can't seem to get a reasonable answer.
I have two systems supposedly having relatively the same memory configurations.
What I'm wondering about is the Cached= and Active= values for each and why they may be so different? Along with the other values underneath. If this could be a difference in configuration or something else.
System1
Memory Stats --------------------------------------------
RAM High Low Swap
Total MB 64425.1 -0.0 -0.0 8192.0
Free MB 54826.1 -0.0 -0.0 8073.7
Free Percent 85.1% 100.0% 100.0% 98.6%
MB MB MB
Cached= 7040.1 Active= 6224.6
Buffers= 425.8 Swapcached= 4.5 Inactive = 2140.5
Dirty = 4.4 Writeback = 0.0 Mapped = 115.9
Slab = 777.5 Commit_AS = 2852.7 PageTables= 18.5
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System2
Memory Stats --------------------------------------------
RAM High Low Swap
Total MB 64423.5 -0.0 -0.0 8192.0
Free MB 3862.4 -0.0 -0.0 7233.0
Free Percent 6.0% 100.0% 100.0% 88.3%
MB MB MB
Cached= 54948.1 Active= 19277.2
Buffers= 599.8 Swapcached= 69.5 Inactive = 38364.4
Dirty = 16.9 Writeback = 0.1 Mapped = 156.0
Slab = 2380.2 Commit_AS = 6982.8 PageTables= 72.9
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I have two systems supposedly having relatively the same memory configurations.
What I'm wondering about is the Cached= and Active= values for each and why they may be so different? Along with the other values underneath. If this could be a difference in configuration or something else.
System1
Memory Stats --------------------------------------------
RAM High Low Swap
Total MB 64425.1 -0.0 -0.0 8192.0
Free MB 54826.1 -0.0 -0.0 8073.7
Free Percent 85.1% 100.0% 100.0% 98.6%
MB MB MB
Cached= 7040.1 Active= 6224.6
Buffers= 425.8 Swapcached= 4.5 Inactive = 2140.5
Dirty = 4.4 Writeback = 0.0 Mapped = 115.9
Slab = 777.5 Commit_AS = 2852.7 PageTables= 18.5
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System2
Memory Stats --------------------------------------------
RAM High Low Swap
Total MB 64423.5 -0.0 -0.0 8192.0
Free MB 3862.4 -0.0 -0.0 7233.0
Free Percent 6.0% 100.0% 100.0% 88.3%
MB MB MB
Cached= 54948.1 Active= 19277.2
Buffers= 599.8 Swapcached= 69.5 Inactive = 38364.4
Dirty = 16.9 Writeback = 0.1 Mapped = 156.0
Slab = 2380.2 Commit_AS = 6982.8 PageTables= 72.9
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