<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org" target="_blank">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Daryl McDonald <<a href="mailto:darylangela@gmail.com">darylangela@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> But before you do that, why don't you back up a few steps? What are<br>
>> you using to determine your RAM usage? Which processes are are<br>
>> consuming the most memory? Have you used "top" with sort-by-memory<br>
>> (press shift-m)?<br>
><br>
> From the frontend menu>information center>system status I see ram usage<br>
> steadily increase during use.<br>
> from what I'm hearing now, probably not a bad thing? my bad.<br>
<br>
</div>Not a bad thing.<br>
<br>
What you want to look out for is the line below that, "swap". If a<br>
significant amount of swap is used, then you may have a problem. If<br>
swap usage is low (~5% or less) then your system is doing fine, even<br>
if RAM is reported at 100% used.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
Eric<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div>OK great, swap has always been low or non-existent.</div></div>