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jhs
Asked: 2009-09-16 19:33:11 +0800 CST

100% memory usage--is it Virtuozzo?

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I have inherited a server that is a Virtuozzo guest. I just noticed that /usr/bin/free is reporting 100% or near-100% memory usage; no shared, no buffers, no cache:

# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          4045       4045          0          0          0          0
-/+ buffers/cache:       4045          0
Swap:            0          0          0

All services are responsive. Both top and ps do not show any processes nearly close to 4GB of allocated memory.

Not to jump the gun but I've managed many Linux systems seen this situation. I vaguely remember reading that Virtuozzo has a dynamic over-committed memory management system, so I was wondering if that is it, and the striking results above are not cause for alarm.

Or should I begin to panic?

Update

For the record, it turned out that a process was definitely consuming memory. It wasn't an artifact of Virtuozzo.

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  1. Best Answer

    No, I think that the important numbers are in /proc/user_beancounters and if those are okay, the system should be okay. But then again, you may want to look at where all that memory is going. There might be a memory leak somewhere.

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