Doubt in ram memory of my node

safranero

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Hi all!

I'm have a server with proxmox 1.9 with 16Gb ram memory but in this captures show's other.

Really, how I can know the ram used on my server?

Thank You so much

Capture of "pveca -l" of this node show's 53% memory used

pveca.gif

Total of memory used in proxmox web interface: 17120 MB used

proxmoxinterface.gif

Capture of command "free -m" in my node: 14712 used and 612 used swap, 5809 cached

freem.gif

out of pveversion -v:

pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-50
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-50
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6
 
Hi all!

I'm have a server with proxmox 1.9 with 16Gb ram memory but in this captures show's other.

Really, how I can know the ram used on my server?

Thank You so much

Capture of "pveca -l" of this node show's 53% memory used

View attachment 708

Total of memory used in proxmox web interface: 17120 MB used

View attachment 709

Capture of command "free -m" in my node: 14712 used and 612 used swap, 5809 cached

View attachment 710

out of pveversion -v:

pve-manager: 1.9-26 (pve-manager/1.9/6567)
running kernel: 2.6.32-6-pve
proxmox-ve-2.6.32: 1.9-50
pve-kernel-2.6.32-6-pve: 2.6.32-50
qemu-server: 1.1-32
pve-firmware: 1.0-14
libpve-storage-perl: 1.0-19
vncterm: 0.9-2
vzctl: 3.0.29-3pve1
vzdump: 1.2-16
vzprocps: 2.0.11-2
vzquota: 3.0.11-1
pve-qemu-kvm: 0.15.0-1
ksm-control-daemon: 1.0-6
Hi,
linux use all ram which isn't used by processes (and so on) as buffer (io).
So it's no problem if not many memory free!

It's important, that your server don't swap (a little bit is ok). All buffered mem is like free mem - if an process need memory the kernel drop cache and use this memory for processes.

Udo