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    vps ram

    Hi,

    I have a question my ram seems to be depleted it says:
    Memory available: 615 MB

    But my server came with 2048 here are the specs

    Two full, dedicated HT CPU cores
    2048 MB of RAM
    200 GB of hard drive space
    2000 GB of InterNAP bandwidth transfer

    I restarted the machine and it gave some ram back (it runs game servers) only a few people on there and uses 5% CPU

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    It's probably oversold.
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    Do you have Linux? If so, please give the output of the command:

    free -m

    and

    cat /proc/meminfo

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    Hi

    If its xen then i'd complain. if its openVZ then you may have burst RAM to 2 gig but not all the time.

    thanks

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    I'm curious where this comes from (control panel?):

    Memory available: 615 MB
    A Linux server normally doesn't have any (or not much) RAM available due to caching and buffering (which is a good thing).

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    Quote Originally Posted by EndServer View Post
    It's probably oversold.
    Yes, this looks like it.

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    There's no way to tell that it is oversold simply by a single "memory available" number.

    He could very well be using 1433 MB of memory and has 615 MB free.

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    I've had a lot of budget VPS's in the past 2 years, most with 512MB ram and 1 with 256MB Ram, but none of them ever filled up the spare memory for cache, i.e. they would use approx 140MB of ram for the months they were up.

    My current VPS has 600MB and within a few hours filled up the memory (480+ for cache)....I was surprised to see this as i'd had for my previous VPS's.

    All OpenVZ anybody know why?

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattb6689 View Post
    Hi,

    I have a question my ram seems to be depleted it says:
    Memory available: 615 MB
    Please send the output of cat /proc/meminfo and then type top and copy/past the top three lines of output from that command so that we can have a look at them.

    Quote Originally Posted by mattb6689 View Post
    I restarted the machine and it gave some ram back (it runs game servers) only a few people on there and uses 5% CPU
    This likely indicates that your 'used' RAM was actually file system cache, or copies of frequently used files that are stored in RAM to speed up performance. FS cache will be given back to programs as needed so it's nothing to worry about.

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    I'm running windows 2003 with a specially-optimized version of Xen for virtualization

    game servers ran on the machine; counter strike source and tf2. I also use a customized control panel provided from the seller, where I got the info from.
    Last edited by mattb6689; 08-23-2011 at 09:02 PM.

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