Dear All, Below is my top command results on db server. I am very curios to know why when it shows that mysqld is just using 1.4% of the memory but total memory used is 32733428k? I would like to know why is this happening?Anything wrong happing to my server is it? Code: top - 14:25:21 up 5 days, 22:39, 2 users, load average: 5.65, 6.51, 6.20 Tasks: 285 total, 1 running, 283 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 2.6%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 95.6%id, 0.1%wa, 0.3%hi, 0.8%si, 0.0%st Mem: 33009800k total, 32733428k used, 276372k free, 248604k buffers Swap: 35061752k total, 60k used, 35061692k free, 29783956k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3519 mysql 20 0 930m 444m 4216 S 133.9 1.4 1005:26 mysqld 31 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 15.8 0.0 9:36.84 ksoftirqd/9 1 root 20 0 4080 852 608 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.91 init 2 root 15 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd
Linux tries to use as much memory as possible to be faster. That's normal and nothing to worry about. Otherwise it's have to read more from the hard drive which would slow down the system.
Dear Falko, When you say linux here means the kernel is using it is it? I am sorry I am new so a kind of lost too.