[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: High Memory Usuage,

[Paul Koufalis]

You are not understanding. Read this http://www.linuxatemyram.com/. Modern operating systems will strive to consume all available RAM. This is normal. However RAM assigned to file system cache is very low priority and is relinquished rapidly. Don't believe me? Try this on a test box: free -m echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches on free -m This instructs Linux to empty the file system cache and return the memory to "free". Also see the presentation I gave a few years back at Progress Exchange: www.progress.com/.../Track-5---Understanding-Operating-System-Performance-Metrics.pdf

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