Re: Odd Memory problem: SA NOT using available memory

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, JOW wrote:

> ServerA (the good one) is using nearly all of the 4gb of RAM
> available to it. But ServerB is only using a fraction of available
> RAM and the # of context switches is tons higher, too.
>
> I hope this isn't a silly question, but how significant is this,
> and where do I go from here?

Are they both running the same kernel? The kernel on server B may have been compiled with different memory config options thatn the one on server A.

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