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Vijay_1982_1648
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Apr 26, 2016

High memory utillzation on F5 Viprion 2400 model

Hi all,   we have 2 viprion box and from one viprion, we have participate 3 LTM. All of them showing memory utilization high ( like total physical memory 5.5G, OS used memory 5.4 G and TMM is 4.0 ...
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Apr 27, 2016

Are you sure it's a problem? You're probably looking at memory allocation, not memory utilization.

Try the following:

[bigip-01:Changes Pending] ~  free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:         16077      16010         66          0        365       4079
-/+ buffers/cache:      11566       4510

From the command above, it looks as if nearly 100% memory is used but in reality only 11566 MB out of 16077 MB are allocated to buffers. That's about 72% true memory usage and not 100%

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Vijay_1982_1648
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Apr 27, 2016
yes I have checked that free -m total - 5679 used - 5595 free - 84 swap - total - 1023,used - 91, free - 932. so in the case we need to increase physical memory, if so please suggested how to do that.