Why top shows different information for memory usage?
Issue
- Customer tested several nodes with the same configuration and hardware
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There were two different kinds of display for memory information amond those nodes as shown below:
Mem: 8207788k av, 6674208k used, 1533580k free, 0k shrd, 3124k buff 3865924k active, 2062944k inactive ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mem: 4099796k av, 4081236k used, 18560k free, 0k shrd, 228936k buff 2526008k actv, 961568k in_d, 95620k in_c Swap: 0k av, 0k used, 0k free 2754252k cached -
Customer wants to know why it shows different output even in the same configuration
Environment
OS : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Update 7
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