We have newly installed linux server with 12 GB of RAM.

Only mysql server in running with this linux box.

We are trying to set the more buffer for mysql, but mysql is not taking.

We have tried to fixed this issues, that time we have seen the memory usage of the linux.

Tasks: 279 total, 1 running, 278 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.6%us, 0.2%sy, 0.0%ni, 92.7%id, 3.4%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 12293068k total, 12250064k used, 43004k free, 18012k buffers
Swap: 14352376k total, 216k used, 14352160k free, 8380644k cached


Here used size is around 11GB free only 40MB, we dont know why OS taking more memory. Only mysql is running in this server, which is taking 30% of RAM, remaining space using my OS.


How to check the process which is taking more memory?

How to optimize the linux OS?

Can you anybody help me?


Thanks.

Regards,
S.Ashokkumar.

Over 2/3 of your memory is used by the file cache. That is normal and healthy operation of your system. It is not something you should worry about, diagnose, or try to "correct".

If you want to know more than that, do a forum search and read a few of the hundreds of times this same question has been asked and answered.

The 'used' memory includes large amounts of disk cache. It's 'used' in the sense that Linux is making use of it, rather than it sitting idle. However, it can also be called 'free' since if a program wants memory it will be made available for that program.

Run the command 'free' and you'll get an output like the following:The "-/+ buffers/cache" line gives what most people normally think of as used vs free memory.

You can run "top" and hold shift-M to get the Memory usage by program