Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question

From	Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem buff/cache question
Date	2024-10-28 16:10 +0100
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B.M. wrote: 
> Thanks a lot for your inputs. In the meantime I disabled zram and added a 2
> GiB swapfile.
> 
> What I don't understand: how can the system have not enough memory problems,
> while it's showing ~ 2 GiB cached/buffer? I'd expect it to free some of that
> and be fine again... 2 GiB is about 50% of the physical RAM of 4 GiB?

That 2GB is being used by zram as swap and cannot be freed.

You probably managed to increase your usable memory by 10-20%
with zram -- at the cost of constantly swapping.

(That's my hypothesis, anyway.)

Let us know what happens in a day or two.

-dsr-

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Small server hanging after some days - top,  load avg and Mem buff/cache question "B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch> - 2024-10-28 11:50 +0100
  Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem  buff/cache question "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2024-10-28 12:40 +0100
  Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem  buff/cache question Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-10-28 15:40 +0100
    Re: Small server hanging after some days - top,  load avg and Mem buff/cache question "B.M." <b-misc@gmx.ch> - 2024-10-28 15:40 +0100
      Re: Small server hanging after some days - top, load avg and Mem  buff/cache question Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2024-10-28 16:10 +0100

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