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Hobbit Memory is Yellow but it's just normal

list Frank Flynn
Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:07:21 -0700
Message-Id: <user-2f379ee9f571@xymon.invalid>

Hi All,

I have a server who's memory keeps going Yellow:

    Mon Oct 15 14:50:27 PDT 2007 - Memory low

    Memory              Used       Total  Percentage
   green Physical           7820M       8055M         97%
   yellow Actual             7341M       8055M         91%
   green Swap                  0M       8055M          0%

And so it is; these numbers do match the `free` numbers.  But it's  not really all being used, it's just the way Linux works.

I'm really only using ~1.5 Gb of 8 and the rest is 'Slab' - which is  kept around by the kernel as a cache.  But I have no Swap used so  we're good.

So how do I get Hobbit to see that and relax (not go to Yellow) until  we start using Swap?

Frank