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excessive memory useage xen vps
Posted by hostcadet, 02-10-2011, 02:52 PM I have a xen vps with cpanel. One site on it with no traffic. I have 4gb of memory and it shows 3gb in use at idle. I can't understand where all this memory is going because ps aux shows nothing really or top? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Posted by Squidix - SamBarrow, 02-10-2011, 04:05 PM That memory is just used for cache. It's the way Linux works, nothing out of the ordinary.
Posted by hostcadet, 02-10-2011, 07:59 PM ok i disabled the memory thing in cpanel and memory went up. I have found where the memory is going. When loading a desktop for vnc it eats up all the memory. when I am done i turn of vnc-server and tried init 3 to stop the x windows but that doesn't work I can't get the xwindows to stop.
Posted by Hsunami, 02-10-2011, 11:51 PM Did you read what samb0057 said? http://www.linuxatemyram.com/ You have to read the 2nd line with +/- buffers. Your server is only using ~437 MB of ram.
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