[TriLUG] Growing OS cache in RAM causing high system CPU usage

Daniel Sterling sterling.daniel at gmail.com
Tue Jul 8 12:49:14 EDT 2014


do you have a swap partition set up; look like no?

This behaviour sounds like what happens when a box has used up all its
RAM and swap.

Try making OOM killer more aggressive and/or disabling overcommit
and/or adding swap

-- Dan

On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Michael Peters
<michael00peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a question I asked on Server Fault that hasn't been answered that
> I thought people on this list might be able to help with:
>
> http://serverfault.com/questions/610756/growing-os-cache-in-ram-causing-high-system-cpu-usage
>
> Thanks,
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> Michael Peters
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